The purpose of the present invention is to provide an oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic composition which has high ultraviolet light blocking ability without being blended with ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate and octocrylene that are liquid ultraviolet absorbents, and which achieves excellent feeling of use by suppressing the blending amount of a polar oil. The present invention relates to an oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic composition which contains (A) an ultraviolet absorbent that contains (a1) a sulfonic acid group-containing water-soluble ultraviolet absorbent, (a2) bisethyloxyphenol methoxyphenyl triazine, (a3) diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate and (a4) ethylhexyl triazone, (B) a polar oil, (C) a higher alcohol and (D) a nonionic surfactant, and wherein the total blending amount of (a2) bisethyloxyphenol methoxyphenyl triazine, (a3) diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, (a4) ethylhexyl triazone and (B) the polar oil is 45% by mass or less.
