PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a metallic soap useful as an additive for cosmetics and usable for increasing lubricative and adhesive properties to the skin and as a dispersant of pigments, and hardly effecting on ingredients of the cosmetics.SOLUTION: The metallic soap for cosmetics is a 6-24C fatty acid magnesium, fatty acid calcium or fatty acid zinc, which is obtained by a metathesis method, wherein 2 mass% water dispersion of the metallic soap is &gepH6 but