Methods of soothing, treating and/or relieving the skin, the scalp, and/or the hair as a result of UV radiation and other oxidative and/or other environmental irritations, pollutions, stresses and damage, itching and/or flaking, including dandruff, or dry skin, inflammation, including rosacea, and/or against wrinkling and other signs of aging, with storage-stable cosmetic and/or dermatological preparations, with trypsin-inhibiting activity, comprising defatted extracts of seeds and/or extracts of defatted seeds, in each case, particularly hulled seeds, of plants of the genus Adenanthera, particularly of Adenanthera pavonina.