SKIN-WHITENING AGENT, ANTI-AGING AGENT, AND ANTI-OXIDANT AGENT

摘要

Disclosed is a skin-whitening agent which has an excellent skin-whitening activity and therefore has an excellent effect of reducing the appearance of pigmentation, pigmented spots, freckles, chloasma or the like after sunburn and whitening the skin. Also disclosed are an anti-oxidant agent and an anti-aging agent, each of which can prevent or inhibit the occurrence of aging in the skin or skin diseases caused by active oxygen (free radical) and therefore has an excellent free radical scavenging ability, and is highly safe. The skin-whitening agent, the anti-oxidant agent or the anti-aging agent comprises an extract from a plant belonging to the family Psilotaceae, the genus Psilotum.