Exploiting Hyponymy in Extracting Relations and Enhancing Ontologies

A method of treating skin disorders comprises the step of applying thereto a composition wherein the main active ingredient comprises dimethyl isosorbide. It has been found that dimethyl isosorbide has a dermal penetrating action which can effectively carry it to the source of a skin disorder and that it has antifungal, antiviral and antibacterial effects which make it effective in the treatment of a wide range of skin disorders.