As found on bottle:
Antiseptic Fungicide helps reduce swelling. tones up muscles. Acts as bracer and tightener. Treats minor cuts- abraisions and fungus infections. Horses can be worked during treatment.

Me: Damn everything you could want in a bottle. And it's for horses!

Medical ingredients:
Menthol 1.25%
chloroxylenol.5%
thymol .25%
ptoasium iodide .0267%
iodine .02%

Bottle Recommendations
general conditioning: use daily - hastens recovery and helps prevent everyday injuries from becoming serious. Full strength or was - does not blister or remove hair - can be worked during treatment

Body wash and leg brace: mix 4 oz absorbine 1 1/2 pints water and 1/2 pint vinegar - daily washing

Lameness and swelling: sponge with HOT water 10 min rub dry. rub abosrbine in well, repeat with abosrbine 3-4 times daily. To bandage.......

Strains and pulled muscles: After inflammation subsides massage in absorbine

Soreness ans stiffness: rub well with absorbine, cover with blanket wrung out in hot water and cover this with dry blanket - let steam for one hour, followed with absorbine 3 or 4 times daily

Results
After reading the bottle I'm sold but lets see the results:

Good, worked good at easing muscular tension. I've had problems with rub a535 or bengay, I could apply lots and get little return with tons of feeling and lots of grease. This was on par if not better, only used it once (today) but I'm opting for better. Took it pre-workout and muscles felt good by the time I got there, after the workout muscle was fine like normal.

Blue balls has a new meaning
Like you I too have heard the horror stories of getting tiger balm on sac and the burning that follows. Not with this, I applied it in groin area (which bottle recommends not to do) and being liquid spilt some on the the sac. Yeah there was some cooling, little bit uncomfortable but bearable - it did make me put on tighter underwear to prevent my sac from touching my leg more, but definitely could have been worse. By the time I got to the gym I didn't notice.

Additionally
The local senior mens baseball team swears by this stuff. They've started rubbing this in pre-game and since then no one has had an injury (several years).

Problems
Liquid - try catching water in your hand and rubbing that in. Being a liquid the cooling spread a bit onto my fingers. You are suppose to rub it in. I barely rubbed anything, fact it dries up damn fast. Bottle says extremely flammable. Cooling is short term, by the time I got to the gym it was fading - can't say if it was any less effective though.

Overall
5/5 I'm putting this over bengay and the like (1st place deserves 5/5), sure the liquid is annoying but it dries up real fast and leave no mess/greasy feeling. Plus it has all these other wonderful benefits... And did I say it is made for horses +1 for cool factor.

They also make a version for people.

Interesting. Any reason why not use the full strength horse stuff. I didn't notice it was too strong, nor do the ingrediants look too bad. But I'm unfamiliar with:
chloroxylenol
thymol
ptoasium iodide

And honestly I try and avoid stuff like this including pain relievers as much as possible. But the old man was raving about it and the benefits it has brought to him and his friends baseball team. So I decided to try it.

Since I enjoyed it more so then Bengay - possibly due to cool factor - I may use it more often, unless it should only be used for horses.

After doing some investigating:

http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp...amp;id=prod4343

The JR stuff seems to have the same ingredients just a few extras. The bottle of vetrinary grade costs me $10 flat through the old mans friend for 475 ml 16.06 ounces (US, fluid) VS that sites $7.49 for 4 oz of JR grade


# With hands-free no-mess applicator. - does have that plus a few other uses mentioned
# Use Absorbine Jr. for:

* Sore, stiff muscles, backaches, and arthritis
* Hot, tired, achy feet
* Athlete's foot itch
* Foot odor
* Insect bites, bee stings
* Sunburn, rashes
* Minor cuts, scrapes, bruises

How it Works:

* As you apply Absorbine Jr., the liquid penetrates deep into the injured tissue.
* A warming sensation is experienced as blood vessels dilate and blood rushes to the affected area, bringing soothing relief.
* Medical research has proven that fatigued muscles recover twice as fast when Absorbine Jr. is applied.

Tones up muscles?
What does that mean? I don't see anything about this product that would make it anabolic/aid hypertrophy.

No clue. I suppose you'd have to ask "leading trainers" that question, toned muscles makes their horses worth more?? How does it tone? I don't know, maybe they mean it helps prepare them for a race. Tones them for racing. I did feel better when using it, that I could have skipped the extra warm ups I usually do - maybe that is the toning?

Then there is the question to what is not labeled on the bottle that isn't too good for humans... I don't think anything, the human version looks like marketing and other product augmentation crap added to the core product to help it sell. I'll stick with the buckleys.

That's pretty vague terminology they used. It could just have a diuretic effect, thus giving the appearance of a more toned muscle/less bf, though.

Well I pulled my hamstring and have been using Absorbine much more. My initial review doesn't change much.

I don't recommend using a sponge or pad to put it on, maybe gloves if you must. The bare hand works much better than a pad/spunge as you don't loose nearly as much.

The results are a bit delayed, more so in some areas than others. For instance I almost never feeling any cooling on the ham while applying liberal amounts, but as soon as I start washing my hands I notice the cooling kicking in and a few min later it is in full force.

You can apply lots without discomfort, there seems to be a maximum amount of cooling. Because of the delayed response you may use more than is needed but the veterinary grade is damn cheap compared to human. One small splash in more sensitive areas can easily do the job ex hips if I were using the more expensive human grade I'd recommend apply a small amount at first and waiting a few min for the full response.

I suppose the smell could be better but it doesn't bother me, but heck Bengay bothers some so whatever.

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The pull wasn't too bad, but I'm pleasantly surprised at how quickly it is recovering. The day of the pull I applied it after the initial first few icings (about an hr later), I then compressed the area with wraps and applied ice less frequently only once every hour for ~15 min. During the compressing I had my leg elevated for the remainder of the night. I again liberally applied once more before bed and took off the wraps (no not immobilized just compressed, hard to use when it is elevated most of the time anyways).

Next day I was very surprised at my recovery, I've been using it since mostly preworkout. Every day since the pull (friday) I've been doing light leg curls for high reps and one leg DLs. Monday I was able to do a bit of GHR's I only noticed a complaint when I was a bit too explosive off the eccentric. Today (Wednesday) I was able to DL up to 405 without much complaints (only a few low rep sets here didn't push it). GHR's were much better and I was able to increase the difficulty here for more sets/reps. I can also now curl half the leg curl machine and with full ROM and a stretch at the top, worked my way up and back down + more high reps stuff. Maybe it is the Absorbine, it definitely isn't hurting my progress. I can also now stretch more aggressively.

I used to use it on horses when I worked with them. Try getting a spray bottle for it. Might have to give it a go again but on me this time, good call!

Good idea, I'll have to get a spray bottle. Did you work with race horses? How did you use it on them? Daily? When was it used? What type of results/benefits did you notice when using it on horses?

Update:
If you apply it after a hot shower it takes much longer to absorb which allows you to spread it easier, and lets you rub it in longer with ease.

If you apply it to a large enough area of your body you may get full body goose bumps. Also if you apply it to a sensitive area and you feel it is uncomfortable (short duration) put on clothes this helps.

I may have lied about the maximum cooling it gives off, if I apply lots to the oblique area it can become uncomfortable and a bit red for a few minutes. Either, I have become a bit more sensitive to it in this area, I'm using way more, or the hot shower has augmented its effects (in that area). Hamstrings have not yet become irritated and I've used way more on them.

Still works good at calming irritated muscles.