[Problem] To provide a whitening agent having a superior skin whitening activity, and having a superior effect in lightening and whitening pigmentation, aging spots, freckles, chloasma, or the like after sunburn, and an antioxidant agent and an anti-aging agent having a superior free radical scavenging ability for preventing and controlling aging in the skin and skin diseases caused by active oxygen (free radicals), and having a high level of safety. [Means for Solving the Problem] An extract of Psilotum spp., the family Psilotaceae, the genus Psilotum is contained.
