A container for a viscous cosmetic, in which upper and lower sections above and below an inner tray are air-tightly sealed off from each other to cause a viscous cosmetic received in a receiving body to be less possible to leak from the upper section to the lower section, and in which the inner tray can be smoothly moved out.A container for a viscous cosmetic includes a cylindrical receiving body, a lid body detachably connected to the upper end of the receiving body, a rotation body connected and placed in the receiving body in a rotatable manner, a screw shaft placed at the center of the rotation body, an inner tray attached to the outer periphery of the screw shaft by means of screw thread and whose outer periphery is placed so as to be slidable on and in intimate contact with the inner surface of the receiving body, and an annular packing placed in an intimate contact relation around the surface on the screw thread connection section side of the inner tray and whose inner peripheral end surface is placed so as to be in contact with the outer periphery of the screw shaft. The inner tray is installed with outer periphery of the inner tray tightened toward the screw shaft by the inner peripheral surface of the receiving body. This causes the inner tray to be not rotatable in the receiving body but axially slidable, and also causes the screw shaft and packing to be in intimate contact with each other to air-tightly seal off the upper section and the lower section of the inner tray from each other.