The invention discloses a 
plant composition with the 
efficacy of whitening the 
skin. The 
plant composition is characterized by being prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 15-50 % of rhizoma 
glycyrrhiza glabra, 10-40 % of rhizoma ligustici wallichii, 5-35 % of 
fructus hippophae, and 5-35 % of 
chrysanthemum morifolium flowers. A preparation method of the 
plant composition comprises the following steps: smashing the 
plant composition, carrying out screening, carrying out soaking by adopting an extracting 
solvent, carrying out room-temperature extracting by adopting a high-pressure homogenizing extractor, carrying out 
centrifugal separation on the extracted solution, carrying out membrane concentration, carrying out adsorbing by adopting 
macroporous resin, carrying out eluting for a plurality of times by adopting 
ethanol solution, collecting the eluate, after membrane concentration, adding with 
butanediol with the weight being equal to that of the extracted concentrated solution for dissolving, and carrying out filtering, thus obtaining the 
plant composition. The 
plant composition obtained by the method has the effects of efficiently inhibiting melanogenesis, 
scavenging free radicals and screening the 
sunlight, and has the effect of whitening and brightening the 
skin after being applied to the 
cosmetics. The plant composition has the advantages that the raw materials are easily available, the preparation method is simple and convenient, as well as 
pollution-free and safe, and the application prospect and market prospect are very good.