Shiseido Company, Limited

Yoshihiro Morikawa

Masaru Suetsugu

Manami Ohnuma

Satoshi Shinojima

Rumiko Kaku

Yuki Shibata

Naoe Akiyama

Yuki Yamase

Kenji Kitamura

An external preparation for the skin comprising at least one of the glycosides or hydroxysaliyclic acid and/or the glycosides of aliphatic esters of hydroxysalicylic acid represented by the following formula 1: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents one selected from the group consisting of saturated hydrocarbon group and an unsaturated hydrocarbon group which have 1 to 20 carbon atoms and which may be either a straight-chain or a branched chain, and one of R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represents a sugar residue and the other hydrogen. The external preparation for the skin has an excellent whitening effect and/or an excellent skin care effect.

External preparation for skin

An external preparation for skin including one or more than two types of tranexamic acid derivatives represented by the following general formula (A). GENERAL FORMULA (A) ##STR1## (In the formula (A), R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represents hydrogen atoms or substituents and at least one of these is the substituent.) The external preparation for skin including the derivatives have excellent depigmentation effect as well as skin care effect.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yoshihiro Morikawa