A cosmetic
skin-care composition containing as the
active principle a depigmentationally active combination of (a) an acidic mixture including (i) at least one alpha-hydroxylated acid or a derivative thereof, with the exception of
ascorbic acid, and (ii) at least one compound selected from the group which consists of
kojic acid,
caffeic acid,
azelaic acid,
aminobutyric acid, fusaric acid, 5-hydroxy 2-
hydroxymethyl-gamma-pyridone, and derivatives thereof, and (b) at least one
active component of a
plant extract from at least one
plant selected from
white mulberry, liquorice,
skull cap, grapefruit, birch, heather, strawberry tree, bearberry, lemon, lettuce, oarweed, cucumber,
ginseng, hop, sweet corn, feverfew, sage, soya, elder, spirulina,
lime, ferocious aloe, yukinoshita, bloodwort, hoelen, wood rose, alpha-orizanol, burnet,
ginkgo biloba, tanlex VB and Eclipsa alba, with the proviso that when the composition contains
kojic acid and a liquorice extract, it contains at least one other
plant extract component. The use of said composition for preparing a
drug or in a cosmetic method is also disclosed.