摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide food products and pharmaceuticals which include extracts of plants of the genus Hibiscus in the family Malvaceae as active ingredients, wherein the food products and pharmaceuticals are MMP-1 production inhibitors, and antiinflammatory agents, and have the action to keep skin firmness and the action to prevent wrinkles, and further are effective in improvement of scleroderma.SOLUTION: This invention provides skin function improving agents, antiinflammatory agents, anti-wrinkle agents, and anti-scleroderma agents which include extracts of plants of the genus Hibiscus in the family Malvaceae as active ingredients. |