The invention relates to a cosmetic composition that promotes oxygen transportinto the skin and comprises vesicles as carriers for transporting oxygen. Inorder to create a cosmetic composition that promotes transport of molecularoxygen into the skin, i.e. through the stratum corneum of the skin and theepidermis into the adjacent tissue, so as to increase the oxygen concentrationin the tissue and activate metabolic processes, said composition contains 1 to50 percent by weight of membrane-forming sphingolipids and/or galactolipidsand 5 to 50 percent by weight of oxygen-laden fluorocarbon or fluorocarbonmixture.