PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a skin external preparation that reduces a raw material odor derived from oil-soluble rice bran extract, improves a use feeling, and is excellent in an instantaneous improvement in moisture retention feeling and skin moisture retention effect after successive use.SOLUTION: A skin external preparation comprises (A) component: oil-soluble rice bran extract 0.1-8 mass% and (B) component: Alaria Esculenta extract 0.0001-0.08 mass%.