Get Rid of Your Menthol Rubs: Four Rare Australian Oils Offer Real Hope for Carpal Tunnel

Often the greatest change happens when someone becomes overly frustrated with the way things are, which pushes them to create something better.

Ralph Linford was 80 years old when he reached that point. He was an Australian engineer from a small country town called Elmore, and his rheumatoid arthritis had gotten bad enough that he could no longer lift his mug of beer. For an Australian man, that is a serious problem.

Ralph did not want a pharmaceutical-only path, so he went looking for another one. That search took him deep into the Australian outback, where he met an Aboriginal healer named Bardo.

Bardo introduced him to Blue Mallee eucalyptus, a rare strain with blue-tinted leaves that grows wild only in the outback. Aboriginal Australians had used it for generations for joint, muscle and nerve discomfort. It carries the highest cineole content of any eucalypt on the planet. That was the first piece.

It took years to find the other three, and longer still to get them to bind into a single oil. He did not sell it at first. He used it on his own hands and handed bottles to friends and family.

That is when something interesting happened. Ralph had made it for his hands, and his friends were using it on their hands too, but for something else entirely. One was a carpenter who had stopped trusting his grip on a ladder. One was waking at three in the morning with a hand that had gone dead and hanging it off the side of the bed to shake it back. One had started buttoning her shirts the night before because mornings were unreliable.

Same body part. Completely different problem. Same bottle. That told Ralph something important: he had not solved an arthritis problem. He had solved a delivery problem.

Here is Mark Linford, Ralph's son and a partner in the business today, on his father's four ingredients and why each one earned its place.

The real discovery was not the ingredient list. It was the timing. The four oils will not combine if you mix them at once. Each has to be added at a specific point in its own plant's maturation cycle. Working that out took Ralph years.

It is also why Outback is not a one-time fix. A counter-irritant gives you its best hour in the first ten minutes and less every time after. This works the other way around. The longer you use Outback Oil, the better it works.

We asked Mark how Outback works without the ingredients almost every other topical on the shelf is built around. He laughed. “Because those are the ingredients that made Dad go looking in the first place.”

Outback has a natural vanilla and eucalyptus scent that does not linger, which matters more here than anywhere. This goes on your hands, and your hands go everywhere. Nobody across a desk from you is going to smell a locker room.

To get the word out, a limited number of first-time customers can buy a full-size Outback Oil Roll-On and get a Free Outback 7-Day Pack. Each sachet in the 7-Day Pack holds a towelette with 3mL of Outback Oil.

The 7-Day Pack is more than a free add-on. This oil rewards consistency, so the thing most likely to stop it working for you is the day you are away from the bottle. A sachet fits in a laptop bag, a purse or a desk drawer, which is exactly where you want one on a long day of typing.

Don't worry, this is not a subscription. You will never be auto-billed. Most people do end up using it daily, because the longer you use it the better it works, and that only happens if you keep using it. Either way you are covered by the 365-day guarantee.

One last thing so the next page makes sense: you will see this called Outback Original Roll-On. Same formula, same bottle. It is named after what is in it, not after a body part, which is why the thank-you letters come from so many different conditions.

If you're ready to sleep through the night without hanging a hand off the side of the bed, and get through a morning without thinking about the buttons on your shirt, enter your email below to claim your offer and see how it works for yourself.