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

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 unexpected happened. His friends were not using it on their hands. One was working it into his lower back and down the back of one thigh before every long drive. One across her hip, on the side she could no longer sleep on. One into a calf that went pins-and-needles every time he stood up from a chair.

Different bodies, different histories, same bottle. That told Ralph something important: he had not solved a hand 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, so nobody at the office or in the car with you is going to know you put it on. The ingredients are safe, non-habit-forming and drug-free.

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. The sachets fit in a wallet, a glove box or a carry-on, which is exactly where you want one before a four-hour drive or a flight.

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 get through a long drive without shifting in the seat the whole way, stand up out of a chair without thinking about it first, and put a sock on standing up, enter your email below to claim your offer and see how it works for yourself.