PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new external preparation or internal preparation excellent in active oxygen scavenging action, collagenase activity inhibiting action, melanogenesis inhibiting action and cell proliferation promoting action.SOLUTION: An extract from Rosa bracteata has excellent active oxygen scavenging action, collagenase activity inhibiting action, melanogenesis inhibiting action and cell proliferation promoting action, and is also excellent in stability. The extract from Rosa bracteata can be utilized not only for a beautification field such as aging or bleaching of skin but also for a medical field such as control of functional decline caused by aging, prevention or treatment of periodontal disease or wound healing, and application thereof to foods, cosmetics, quasi drugs, drugs or the like is expected.
