A skin-improving agent which contains, as an active ingredient, an amino acid composition or the like, said amino acid composition containing 15-25% by weight of glycine or a salt thereof, 8-18% by weight of glutamic acid or a salt thereof, 5-15% by weight of proline or a salt thereof and 4-14% by weight of alanine or a salt thereof, respectively relative to the total amount of the amino acid composition. Another skin-improving agent, wherein the amino acid composition contains 50-100% by weight of glycine, glutamic acid, proline and alanine or salts of these amino acids in total relative to the total amount of the amino acid composition.