With an object of discovering a substance having a testosterone
5.alpha.-reductase inhibiting action, a hair papilla cell growth
promoting action, a fibroblast growth factor-7 production promoting
action, a vascular endothelial growth factor production promoting action
or a bone morphogenetic protein-2 production promoting action, and of
providing a hair care product having this substance blended therein, and
a hair growth tonic, a testosterone 5.alpha.-reductase inhibitor, a hair
papilla cell growth promoter, a fibroblast growth factor-7 production
promoter, a vascular endothelial growth factor production promoter and a
bone morphogenetic protein-2 production promoter each having this
substance as an active ingredient thereof, a hair care product of the
present invention is made to contain corosolic acid therein, and each of
a hair growth tonic, a testosterone 5.alpha.-reductase inhibitor, a hair
papilla cell growth promoter, a fibroblast growth factor-7 production
promoter, a vascular endothelial growth factor production promoter and a
bone morphogenetic protein-2 production promoter of the present invention
is made to contain corosolic acid as an active ingredient thereof.