PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cosmetic equipped with both of an excellent skin-beautifying and whitening effect, and an excellent living body safety by finding out a new skin-beautifying and whitening component exhibiting excellent preventing and improving effects for skin aging phenomena such as wrinkles, flabbiness, spots, freckles, etc., holding or improving the skin as a young and healthy state, also having less irritation to the skin and excellent in the living body safety in natural materials, and blending such the component.SOLUTION: This cosmetic is provided by including an extract obtained from the flower part of a plant belonging to the genus Paeonia of Paeoniaceae, and having a tyrosinase activity inhibitory effect, an antioxidative action and an MMP activity inhibitory effect, as an active ingredient.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】シワ、たるみ、シミ、ソバカス等の皮膚老化現象に対してすぐれた予防、改善効果を発揮して、皮膚を若々しく健全な状態に保持し、又は改善するとともに、皮膚に対する刺激が少なく生体安全性にもすぐれた新規な美肌化及び美白成分を天然物中に見出し、かかる成分を配合することにより、すぐれた美肌化及び美白効果、並びにすぐれた生体安全性を兼ね備えた化粧料を提供する。【解決手段】ボタン科(Paeoniaceae)ボタン属(Paeonia)に属する植物の花部から得られ、チロシナーゼ活性抑制作用、抗酸化作用、及びMMP活性抑制作用を有する抽出物を有効成分とする化粧料。【選択図】なし
