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Well summer is definitely here! Well it is for me anyway and right now England is having a bit of a heat wave. And everyone is trying to stay cool, relaxing in the shade and drinking cold drink and doing what they can to stay as cool as possible! And if you're looking for some life hacks to stay cool this summer, here's 7 life hacks to stay cool with!
1. DIY Air-con.
This one is a really old trick but it works! All you need to do is get a fan and put several bottles of frozen or chilled water in front of it. You can substitute the bottles for frozen ice as well. Get a bowl and fill it up with ice and put that in front of it instead. The cold air rising from it will get blown by the fan and be twice as cool as without it!
2. DIY Cooling Face Mist.
You can make your own cooling face mist by adding either some mint, lavender, rose oil or even cucumber to a spray bottle topped up with chilled water. The water doesn't have to be chilled, these herbs and even cucumber contain natural minerals that have a cooling and soothing effect. However popping them in the fridge for an hour or the freezer for 10-15 minutes will make them even more cooling. Just spray onto face for a quick cool down squirt at home or out on the go.
3. DIY Ice Wraps.
Ice cubes wrapped in a tea-towel or something else like muslin or j-cloth or even a clean sock or t-shirt then wrapped around your wrists or ankles or even around your neck will cool you down FAST! Try to place it so that it's somewhere where you have a pulse such as your wrists. Another thing you could do is soak a sponge in water, then place it in a sealy bag and then freeze it.
4. Eat Something Spicy!
Believe it or not, one of the best ways to cool down is to eat something hot and spicy. This is because they make you sweat which lowers your external body temperature. You can try a nice chicken masala or other curry or a spicy chilli or chilli bean soup. The same applies for drinking hot drinks too. Instead of having a cold drink, try a nice hot cup of tea or coffee instead, it will cool you down much faster than an ice lolly will. This is because it raises your internal body temperature so your external body temp feels cooler.
5. Get Fruity!
Try this. Freeze some fruit in your freezer such as grapes, strawberries, sliced apples and pears or melon or banana slices etc. Then just add them to your drink or eat them straight from the freezer! You could even freeze them in ice containers in ice as well.
Okay so there's 5 DIY life hacks to keep cool this summer! I hope you'll like these and make good use of them for cooling down with!
Do you like these cool life hacks to stay cool with?
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Lynne
Ok so one nice thing about our house is that it is all tiled and we have high ceilings, plus we have a back door and a front door and our home is open plan. Our back door opens onto the beach and we get a cool breeze coming off the water usually even on the hottest days so my best hack is to open both doors and it creates a cool breeze right through the house and I sit in the middle LOL.
Ok so not everyone has this wonderful sea breeze like me.. so my favourite here is the frozen fruit option. Yummy, fresh and cool. My worst one here would be the spicy food. I am the kind of person that gets ring sting if I eat spicy stuff, if you know what I mean? So it might cool me off for a bit but it will have other nasty repercussions. Hey Mike to be honest what I would love is just to have aircons put into my house haha. Ok so one nice thing about our house is that it is all tiled and we have high ceilings, plus we have a back door and a front door and our home is open plan. Our back door opens onto the beach and we get a cool breeze coming off the water usually even on the hottest days so my best hack is to open both doors and it creates a cool breeze right through the house and I sit in the middle LOL. Ok so not everyone has this wonderful sea breeze like me.. so my favourite here is the frozen fruit option. Yummy, fresh and cool. My worst one here would be the spicy food. I am the kind of person that gets ring sting if I eat spicy stuff, if you know what I mean? So it might cool me off for a bit but it will have other nasty repercussions.
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