PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide natural origin components and external preparations for skin that can prevent skin aging due to glycation reaction and ultraviolet rays, while preventing and/or improving skin aging due to oxidative stress and various skin diseases associated with free radicals.SOLUTION: An external preparation has an active oxygen removal effect, an anti-saccharification effect, and a melanin production inhibitory effect, wherein South Africa origin of Asparagaceae Albuca plant extract is contained as an active oxygen eliminating agent, an anti-saccharification agent, and a melanogenesis inhibitor.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT