SKIN WHITENING AGENT, MELANOGENESIS INHIBITOR, AND SKIN WHITENING SKIN EXTERNAL PREPARATION

摘要

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a skin whitening agent and a skin external preparation which have good safety and exhibit a high skin whitening effect. Ž<P>SOLUTION: The skin whitening agent and the skin external preparation have a culture of at least one kind selected from the group of lichens consisting of Calicium japonicum (Japanese name: Oopingoke), Usnea rubescens, and Usnea roseola and/or extracts thereof as an active ingredient. Ž<P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT Ž