Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha

Toshiro Sone

Naoki Izawa

Katsuyoshi Chiba

Satoshi Yoshikawa

Kouji Miyazaki

Yoshio Hiraki

Miyuki Kudo

Tomoko Hanamizu

Takashi Kinoshita

Koji Miyazaki

Ritsuo Aiyama

Daisuke Niwa

Mitsuyoshi Kano

Ryoko Iizuka

Norie Masuoka

Makoto Ohwaki

Tomoko Kurasawa

Fukiko Nishisaka

Sachiko Matsumoto

Tatsutoshi Shiraishi

Minoru Ichioka

Saho Sugimoto

Provided is a culture product having a mild rose aroma and suitable for imparting the rose aroma to a cosmetic product, a food or a drink, a pharmaceutical product, and the like. A culture product, which is obtained by fermenting a lactic acid bacterium culture product in a medium containing a milk component with, and comprises isoamyl alcohol in an amount of 0.3 to 5 parts by mass with respect to 1 part by mass of phenylethyl acetate.

Aromatic culture product of microorganism

A culture product comprising a large quantity of ethyl benzoate and has a more complex and fresher fruity aroma than a chemically synthesized product. The culture product is obtained by culturing a microorganism belonging to the genusin a milk component-containing culture medium.

Culture product of microorganism belonging to the genus

A pentosidine production inhibitor including a lactic acid bacterium fermentation product as an active ingredient, which has a stronger action and a high safety as a component having an action of inhibiting production of pentosidine.

Pentosidine production inhibitor

Disclosed is a skin property-improving agent which exerts excellent effects by oral administration. The skin property-improving agent for oral administration contains, as an active ingredient, a bacterium belonging to the genusand a bacterium belonging to the genus, or fermented milk containing the two bacteria.

Skin properties improving agent for oral administration

An object of the present invention is to find a novel and useful component in a culture supernatant of a lactic acid bacterium and to provide an effective utilization method of the component. The utilization method is a cytoprotective agent containing, as an active ingredient, a low-molecular-weight fraction in a culture supernatant of a lactic acid bacterium belonging to

Cytoprotective agent

A composition for retarding skin aging which contains an edible herb medicine or medicines round in Taiwan, in particular a plant extract or extracts having melanin formation-unhibiting, elastase-inhibiting, hyaluronidase-inhibiting, active oxygen-eliminating and/or radical-capturing type antioxidant activities, and a medicinally acceptable base and/or additives for external dermal application. The composition is useful in promoting skin whitening effects, maintaining the tension and elasticity of the skin, facilitating skin moistening and providing the skin with anti-inflammatory and/or anti-allergic properties.

Compositions for retarding skin aging

The invention provides an anti-wrinkle agent which has an excellent effect of inhibiting the formation of wrinkles and excellent safeness. The anti-wrinkle agent contains, as an active ingredient, a culture supernatant of a lactic acid bacterium belonging to

Anti-wrinkle agent

The invention relates to a skin preparation for external use, which contains a lamellar structure containing a fatty acid monoglyceride as a main component, and vitamin A or a derivative thereof. The skin preparation for external use has high effects of improving skin roughness and suppressing wrinkling, etc., shows neither any offensive smell nor stickiness, and exhibits controlled foaming upon the production thereof.

Skin preparations for external use

Skin preparations for external use and cosmetics which contain a fermented soybean extract prepared by extracting with an organic solvent a fermentation product obtained by treating a soybean extract with one or more microorganisms selected from bifidobacteria. These preparations are excellent in the effects of relieving wrinkles and ameliorating rough skin.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshiro Sone