Provided is a skin external preparation that generates no sticky feeling, and provides high moisturizing feeling and an effect of preventing and improving dullness, and further that is also excellent in a feeling on use such as elasticity. The present invention is a skin external preparation comprising the following ingredients (A) and (B) : (A) Pentaerythritol and (B) One or more kinds selected from the group consisting of glycerin, 1,3-butylene glycol, propanediol, dipropylene glycol, 1,4-butylene glycol, diglycerin, threitol, erythritol, sorbitol and mannitol.本發明提供一種不產生黏瘩感,可得到高保濕感與黯沉的預防‧改善效果,進而緊緻感等使用感亦優越的皮膚外用劑。本發明係含有下述成分(A)與(B)之皮膚外用劑。包含:(A)季戊四醇;(B)選自甘油、1,3-丁二醇、丙二醇、二丙烯甘醇、1,4-丁二醇、二甘油、蘇糖醇、丁四醇、山梨醇及甘露醇之1種或2種以上。
