PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a skin external preparation for preventing heavy metal contamination to skin and/or cleaning skin contaminated by a heavy metal.SOLUTION: The skin external preparation containing inorganic powder, for example, zeolite ground so that an average particle diameter is to be 10 &mum or less, unexpectedly holds ability to capture the heavy metal, is favorably dispersed to such an extent as to be usable as a skin external preparation, and can keep moisture of skin.