To solve the problems of stick cosmetics such as lip rouge and lip liner comprising the softness to cause the breakage by improving the properties of the cosmetics and, especially in the case of lip liner, increased breakability owing to the decrease of the thickness for writing the contour line of the lips.

A cylinder filled with a cosmetic is placed in a delivery container and the cosmetic in the cylinder is pushed forward with a pushing rod. In a stick cosmetic having the above structure, the perpendicular cross-section of the stick cosmetic is elliptic and the cosmetic contains 7-30 mass% hydrocarbon wax including polyethylene wax and 1-30 mass% polybutene.