Antioxidants are necessarily used in nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) products to prolong their lifetimes. But blooming of antioxidants limits the anti‐aging efficiency. Herein, a novel solution was proposed to avoid such a blooming. Antioxidant, 3, 9‐bis‐{1, 1‐dimethyl‐2(β‐[3‐tert‐butyl‐4‐hydroxy‐5‐methylphenyl‐] propionyloxy) ethyl}‐2, 4, 8, 10‐tetraoxaspiro [5, 5]‐undecane (AO‐80) was loaded to carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by chemically grafting after shearing force and then physically melting to encapsulate. In the AO‐80 loaded CNTs (CNT‐AO80), physical loading amounts of antioxidants were 2.1% and strongly suppressed by those parts from chemically grafting (13.9%), developing a distribution around CNTs. CNT‐AO80 therefore maintained a high total loading efficiency of antioxidant and reduced its physical release amounts not to bloom. When 20 phr CNT‐AO80 were doped to NBR, they allowed a good dispersity and reinforcement for rubber matrix. After thermal‐oxidative aging at 70, 80, and 90°C for 60 days, the composite gave an extremely low deterioration of mechanical property. POLYM. COMPOS., 40:E1172–E1180, 2019. © 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers