Snow Brand Milk Products Co., Ltd.

Klaas Doesburg

Morimasa Tanimoto

Yasuharu Itagaki

Seiji Kurosawa

Taisuke Iwasaki

Jan Sikkema

Tetsuro Ohba

This invention provides compositions for fair-skin containing the phosphorylated polysaccharides produced by lactic acid bacteria as an effective ingredient. The phosphorylated polysaccharides are expressed, for example, by the following formula and contained in the compositions for fair-skin at concentrations of 0.01-20 weight % and are used such as creams, emulsions and toilet lotions. The compositions for fair-skin exhibit fair-skin effect by inhibiting activities to melanoma proliferation and melanin formation. ##STR1## (wherein, Glc, Gal and Rha represent glucose, galactose and rhamnose residues, respectively. Numerals shown by other than subscript represent the respective binding sites and n represents the degree of polymerization of 1,000-5,000).

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Hoogezand, Netherlands

Klaas Doesburg