It is intended to provide a composition containing wild watermelon
extract. More specifically speaking, it is intended to provide an active
oxygen scavenging agent containing wild watermelon extract, a method of
producing the same and a method of using the same, and a moisturizing
agent containing wild watermelon extract, a method of producing the same
and a method of using the same. Attention is paid to the facts that wild
watermelon juice per se employed as an active oxygen eliminator shows an
activity of eliminating active oxygen about 10 times higher citrulline,
which is contained in wild watermelon juice, at the same concentration
and that wild watermelon extract has not only the ability to eliminate
active oxygen but also a favorable moisturizing effect. Thus, there have
been developed an active oxygen eliminator and a moisturizing agent as
well as foods, cosmetics, bathing preparations, hair care products, drugs
and quasi drugs containing extract of wild watermelon being a native of
Kalahari Desert in Africa.