PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oil-in-water emulsified skin care preparation that gives both a tight feeling immediately after the application and such a tight feeling being felt from the internal side of a skin (as a feeling of fullness in the next morning) after the elapse of time and that has a feeling of no stickiness to skin.SOLUTION: This oil-in-water emulsified skin care preparation includes (a) a wax fine dispersion composition which includes a wax in the state of solid to semisolid at ordinary room temperature, a nonionic surfactant, and a water-based dispersing medium, with a mass ratio of the nonionic surfactant/the wax being 1.0 or more, and in which the wax is finely dispersed to the state of solid or semisolid in a water-based dispersing medium, (b) one or more selected from a polyoxyethylene hardened-castor oil, a polyoxyethylene phytosterol ether, and an acrylic acid/alkyl methacrylate copolymer, and (c) an oil hydrate.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】塗布直後のハリ感と、時間経過後における肌の内側から感じられるハリ感(翌朝ふっくら感)が共に得られ、かつ肌のべたつき感がない水中油型乳化皮膚外用剤の提供。【解決手段】(a)常温で固体~半固体のワックスと、非イオン界面活性剤と、水系分散媒を含有し、非イオン界面活性剤/ワックスの質量比が1.0以上である、ワックスが固体~半固体状で水系分散媒中に微細分散してなるワックス微細分散組成物と、(b)ポリオキシエチレン硬化ヒマシ油、ポリオキシエチレンフィトステロールエーテル、およびアクリル酸・メタクリル酸アルキル共重合体の中から選ばれる1種または2種以上と、(c)抱水性油分を含む、水中油型乳化皮膚外用剤。【選択図】なし
