PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an external preparation for the skin, containing a base having good stability, and providing excellent use feeling, especially wet feeling and lack of squeaky feeling after being coated.SOLUTION: The external preparation for the skin includes 0.01-5 mass% of a polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene-added phytosterol and/or a polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene-added phytostanol represented by general formula (I) (wherein, R is a phytosterol residue or a phytostanol residue m is a number of 5-100 and n is a number of 5-100) and 0.01-10 mass% of a block-type alkylene oxide derivative represented by general formula (II), R1O-[(BO)p(EO)q(BO)r]-R2 (II) (wherein, BO is an oxybutylene group EO is an oxyethylene group p, r and q are each an average number of added moles 1&leq&le70 1&lep+r&le70 the proportion of the oxyethylene group based on the total of the oxybutylene group and the oxyethylene group is 20-80 mass% and R1 and R2 are each a 1C-4C hydrocarbon group).COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】基剤安定性が良好で、且つ使用感触、特に塗布後のしっとり感、きしみ感のなさに優れる皮膚外用剤の提供。【解決手段】一般式(I)のポリオキシエチレン-ポリオキシプロピレン付加フィトステロール及び/又はポリオキシエチレン-ポリオキシプロピレン付加フィトスタノール0.01~5質量%と、一般式(II)のブロック型アルキレンオキシド誘導体を0.01~10質量%と、を含有する。(式中、Rはフィトステロール残基又はフィトスタノール残基、mは5~100の数、nは5~100の数を示す。)R1O-[(BO)p(EO)q(BO)r]-R2(II)(式中、BOはオキシブチレン基、EOはオキシエチレン基、p、r及びqはそれぞれ平均付加モル数、1≦q≦70、1≦p+r≦70。オキシブチレン基とオキシエチレン基の合計に対するオキシエチレン基の割合は20~80質量%。R1及びR2は炭素数1~4の炭化水素基である。)【選択図】なし
