Put Down the Menthol: Four Australian Oils Are Changing How People Handle Sciatic Discomfort

Often the biggest change happens when someone gets frustrated enough with the way things are to go build something better.

Ralph Linford was 80 years old when he hit 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 one ingredient. It took Ralph years to find the other three, and longer still to get them to bind together into a single oil.

He did not sell it at first. He used it himself and handed bottles to friends and family. They kept coming back saying the same thing: it actually works.

Then something he had not planned for started happening. People were not only using it on their knuckles and their knees. They were using it low on the back and down the back of the leg, along a line that nothing else in the bathroom cabinet had ever reached.

Ralph tested and discarded ingredients for years. Here is what he settled on, 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 simply mix them at once. Each one has to be added at a specific point in its own plant's maturation cycle. Get the timing right and they bind into a single unified oil. Get it wrong and you have four oils sitting in a bottle refusing to cooperate.

No synthetics. No preservatives. Nothing that burns or freezes the skin.

Pills and powders have to be digested first, which takes hours, and you get no say in where they end up. Why put an entire body through it when the trouble runs down one line, on one leg?

Outback is a topical, so it goes exactly where you put it: low on the back, into the hip, down the back of the thigh. Roll it on, rub it in, wipe away the excess. About thirty seconds, once or twice a day.

It has a natural vanilla and eucalyptus scent that does not linger, and it will not leave you sticky or greasy. A lot of people keep one bottle on the nightstand and use it right before bed.

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. A topical only does its job when it gets used consistently, and the sachets are small enough to live in a purse, a glove box or a suitcase. They are what keep people from skipping days when they are away from the bottle.

Don't worry, this is not a subscription. You will never be auto-billed. We know you're going to love it and come back to order more on your own.

One last thing so the next page makes sense: you will see this called Outback Original Oil 50mL 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 arrive from so many different places.

If you're ready to sit through the whole movie, take the long drive, and get out of bed without negotiating with your leg, enter your email below to claim your offer and see how it works for yourself.