To provide a skin care preparation for external use solving such problems that conventionally known masking agents has insufficient effects, being unsatisfactory, and base odor attributable to raw material(s) compounded in skin care preparations, especially a combination of an ultraviolet light scattering agent with an ultraviolet light absorber, and odor emitting with time as a result of its(their) deterioration lower the commodity value of the preparations, thus the preparation freed from the above odor owing to masking effect is requested.

This skin care preparation for external use contains one or more masking agents selected from eucalyptus oil, Rosacanina oil, Artemisiavulgaris oil, Anthemisnobilis oil, fennel oil, peppermint oil, bergamot oil, sparemint oil, Opopanax oil, pine needle oil, Majoram oil, Pogostemoncablin oil, Pimentaracemosa oil, nutmeg oil, basil oil, thyme oil, laurel leaf oil, Rabudanum oil, Salviasclarea oil and neroli oil.