PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a skin cosmetic making small wrinkles of the skin inconspicuous, showing the skin fine and bright, and having effects of preparing the skin so as to be beautiful.SOLUTION: The skin cosmetic contains cocoon-shaped polymer particles having 1-8 &mum average particle diameters, one and the other terminals being hemispherical revolving bodies or columnar revolving bodies of parts thereof, and satisfying the condition wherein the area within the outline in a projection chart occupies &ge85% of an area in a base line when the outline of the projection chart obtained by irradiating the cocoon-shaped polymer fine particle with a light in the vertical direction to the columnar side face is superposed on the base line drawn by (1) 1.1&leL/W&le3 and (2) 0.3&leR/W&le0.6 (wherein, L is the distance between one terminal and the other terminal in the rotation axis X of the revolving body W is the diameter of the column and R is the radius of the hemisphere) so as not to protrude therefrom.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】肌の小皺をより目立たなくして、肌をきめ細かく明るく見せ、肌を美しく整える効果を有する皮膚化粧料の提供。【解決手段】平均粒子径1~8μmの、一端および他端が半球状又はその一部である円柱状回転体であり、回転体の回転軸Xにおける一端と他端との距離をL、円柱の直径をW、半球の半径をRとするとき、(1)1.1≦L/W≦3(2)0.3≦R/W≦0.6で描かれる基本線内に、繭状ポリマー微粒子の円柱側面に対して垂直方向に光を照射して得られる投影図の輪郭をはみ出ない様に重ねるとき、投影図の輪郭内の面積が基本線内の面積の85%以上である繭状ポリマー微粒子を含有してなる皮膚化粧料。【選択図】図1
