PURPOSE: To obtain a powdery cosmetic resistant to discoloration, having sufficiently high dispersibility or storage stability, applicable to the skin without causing dusting, pale skin color and skin irritation and giving synthetically excellent finished skin by compounding spherical cellulose powder coated with ultraviolet absorber, etc.

CONSTITUTION: Spherical porous cellulose powder having an average particle diameter of 3-50μm and the maximum particle diameter of 100μm is mechanically mixed with a specific amount of one or more kinds of ultraviolet absorbers or ultraviolet shielding agents such as p-aminobenzoic acid, benzophenone, cinnamic acid, benzofuran, salicylic acid, conmarin, azole, titanium oxide, zinc oxide, their salts, their derivatives or their mixture, etc. The cellulose surface is coated, impregnated or chemically bonded with the ultraviolet absorber, etc., by the above coating process, etc. The amount of the granular cellulose particles coated or impregnated with the ultraviolet absorber, etc., is 0.1-50wt.% based on the whole powdery cosmetic.