Sweaty boobs, cornflour in the bra and deodorant on your private parts – women reveal the reality of living in a heatwave
A group of savvy Mumsnetters have come up with ingenious ideas as to how to keep cool as the mercury rises...
CRAMPED train carriages at 40 degrees centigrade, sleepless nights and days staring out the office window at the blazing sunshine.
We love the heatwave!
But it does come with some, um, problems which happily the ladies at towers have flagged up.
In a hilarious thread they've listed some of the problems they've suffered... and offered handy hacks on how to solve them.
But the advice is NOT for the faint of heart.
Still, it's nice to know we aren't alone...
Thighs rubbing
Mumsnetter CelebratedMonkey flagged this up as a concern: "I've been wearing lots of shorts under dresses to avoid chub-rub but one day I wore footless tights and the pain afterwards was horrid!" she said. "I was also (sorry tmi) a bit sore around my bum."
Sweaty boobs
Loads of Mumsnetters said this was an issue.
But, happily, ProblemSolved had a solution.
She said: "I'm a jogger and get sweaty underboob. I fix it by cutting a sheet of kitchen roll in half and folding half a sheet under each boob."
BigKiteFlying also offered advice on how to solve it - and it is not something we would have considered.
She said: "Cornflour under the boobs - like talc because we had a packet in needing using up - has stopped my underboob getting hot and sore even with underwire bras which give me best support.
"[It's the] best solution I've found so far."
Hot private parts
RiverTam was worried about this. "I have a sweaty groin and sweaty underboobs," she admitted.
"I’m going through pants and bras like nobody’s business, only I don’t have that many bras."
ChoccyBiccy66 said: "I tried a bit of Canesten [thrush treatment] but it's done nothing, I genuinely think it is the sweat reacting to the skin down there!"
CigarsofthePharoahs added: "I am currently finding that a sweaty undercarriage is leading to chafing and the need to do contortions to put on plasters or slather with Sudocrem.
"I hate this weather."
But one woman came up with a suggestion: "Antiperspirant roll on between your legs will stop chub rub!"
Boiling face
Hadjab flagged this up as a concern: "For me, it’s the fact that I sweat profusely from my forehead and upper lip - extremely embarrassing on public transport, particularly when you have to stand, but you can’t let go of the handle to wipe your face!!
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