To provide a cosmetic capable of protecting the skin from drying, ultraviolet rays, oxidation or the like which is harmful for the skin, capable of maintaining and recovering the homeostasis-maintaining function originally possessed by the skin, and capable of exhibiting extreme effects to the amelioration of pigmentation disorder such as stain and freckle, the retardation of symptom of senility such as somberness, wrinkles, bag and depilation, the amelioration of symptom of rough skin, dry skin, pimple, chilblain, eruption, allergy, atopic dermatitis or the like, the prophylaxis of a decayed tooth, pyrorrhea alveolaris or the like, the abatement of sudamen, shoulder discomfort, neuralgia, poor circulation or the like, and the prophylaxis of skin carcinoma or the like.

This cosmetic is characterized in that ancient saltwater sealed in the deep level of the earth core, capable of supplying mineral components by percutaneous absorption, and simultaneously capable of extremely inhibiting the excess generation and accumulation of active oxygen and an activated lipid is formulated therewith.