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AssigneeIndustry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
InventorsJae Kwan Hwang, Seon Wook Woo, Chang Hee Kim, Mi Bo Kim
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The present invention relates to a novel use of fucosterol and, more specifically, to a composition for skin whitening or composition for skin moisturizing, which is characterized by containing fucosterol. Fucosterol of chemical formula 1 below has an excellent whitening effect of inhibiting melanin generation and tyrosinase activity, and thus can be used as an active ingredient of a cosmetic composition for whitening, a food composition, or a pharmaceutical composition. Furthermore, the fucosterol of chemical formula 1 below has an excellent moisturizing function by forming dead skin cell membranes, promoting the differentiation of dead skin cells, and generating natural moisturization factors, and thus can be used as an active ingredient of a cosmetic composition for moisturizing, a food composition, or a pharmaceutical composition
A method of improving skin whitening or moisturizing, the method comprising administrating a composition including fucosterol represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 as an active ingredient to a subject in need thereof,
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