FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to the pharmaceutical industry, particularly to a method for producing a tyrosinase inhibitor. The method for producing the tyrosinase inhibitor involves the stages of contacting alive earthworms and hydroxy carboxylic acid powder, diluting the prepared mixture with water to reduce pH to 2-5 and keeping the diluted mixture for 3-180 minutes, or contacting alive earthworms and an aqueous solution of hydroxy carboxylic acid having pH 2-5, and keeping the produced mixture for 3-180 minutes; washing the alive earthworms with water, grinding the washed earthworms and lyophilising the prepared ground product. A cosmetic product containing the tyrosinase inhibitor.
EFFECT: method described above enables producing the high-safety tyrosinase inhibitor having high tyrosinase-inhibitory activity.
5 cl, 7 dwg, 6 tbl, 10 ex
