Abstract In recent years, there is a greater emphsis on the consciousness of global environmental protection . In response to returning to nature, using natural resources as materials, gaining extraction on herbs shall be considerable . Since Chinese herbal medicine has been our treasure for more than five thousand years, we took it widely not only for curing disease, but also for cosmetic use . In this thesis, we will do some relative research on Chinese herbal medicine used for whitening skin and integrate Chinese herbal medicine used for whitening and the application of cosmestic for whitening .We hope this paper will help to have potential effect on our whitening cosmestic as well.