PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide globular composite particles which have the desired hardness and/or the softness, and besides which are capable of imparting the high slip properties and covering effect on a cosmetics.SOLUTION: The globular particles comprise an aggregation assembly of a plurality of inorganic particles, and a plurality of flat-shape resin particles selected from styrene-based resin particles, (meth)acrylic-based resin particles and the mixed particles of both the resin particles, wherein the inorganic particles have an average particle diameter of 1 &mum or less, the flat-shape resin particles have a round shape as an external shape of such a projection figure as makes the area the largest, and the external shape of a cross section to the direction crossing at a right angle to the projection direction has a shape comprising a protrusion and the concavity corresponding to the protrusion, with the round shape having a diameter (D) of 6 &mum or less, the protrusion having such a thickness (H) that a ratio (D/H) of the thickness (H) to the diameter (D) becomes 1.4 or more, and the concavity having the largest inner diameter (d) of 0.1 &mum or more.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】所望の硬さ及び/又は柔らかさを備えた上で、高い滑り性及び隠蔽効果を化粧料に付与しうる球状複合粒子を提供することを課題とする。【解決手段】複数の無機粒子と、スチレン系樹脂粒子、(メタ)アクリル系樹脂粒子及びそれら両樹脂粒子の混合粒子から選択される複数の偏平状樹脂粒子とが集合してなり、前記無機粒子が、1μm以下の平均粒子径を有し、前記偏平状樹脂粒子は、面積を最大となるように投影した図の外形が円形で、前記投影の方向に直交する方向の断面の外形が凸部と前記凸部に対応する凹部とからなる形状を有し、前記円形が、6μm以下の直径(D)を有し、前記凸部は、その厚み(H)と前記直径(D)との比(D/H)が1.4以上となる厚み(H)を有し、前記凹部が、0.1μm以上の最大内径(d)を有することを特徴とする球状複合粒子により上記課題を解決する。【選択図】図3
