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The purpose of this study is to discover a way to improve the quality of high school textbooks on skin care by comparative analysis of their structure and contents against those of actual curriculum. The research is also expected to provide a foundation for subsequent development of a textbook on skin care. In order to achieve these objectives this research studied three textbooks based upon the 7th Revised Educational Curriculum. In regard to research method, the contents in each textbook were categorized into six different areas, according to the interpretation of 7th Revised Educational Curriculum. The research results have revealed that the government-designated textbook contains slightly more diversified structure and that the contents of the sampled textbooks do not correspond to those of National Educational Curriculum. Therefore, it is suggested that the skin care textbooks that are currently in use need to be reviewed at a political level such that they could be practically utilized in secondary education.