PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a skin cosmetic which can be used for improving stains, freckles, chloasma, and dullness based on inhibiting a tension, gloss, texture, roughness and dryness, wrinkle, and pigmentation in the skin by epidermal cell activating effect, fibroblast activating effect, and synthetic facilitatory effect of collagen and hyaluronic acid in a fibroblast.SOLUTION: The invention relates to a skin cosmetic containing extracts of a bamboo shoot which is a sprout of bamboo of Poaceae, Bambusoideae, Phyllostachys, and the skin of a bamboo shoot as active ingredients.