Shaving body hair and taking bottles of frozen water to bed – how Brits are staying cool this summer

Britons are doing everything they can to stay cool this summer, according to a new study showing how the country is coping with a heat wave.

A survey of Britons reveals that the most common strategy is to drink a lot of ice-cold drinks – practiced by almost three in four (73 percent) people.

But the study also throws up a plethora of more unusual methods used to deal with hot weather.

One in ten people say they shave off their body hair to keep cool, while three percent admit to walking around the house with wet socks.

Freezing the sheets before going to bed (four percent), sitting with your feet in a bowl of ice water (nine percent), taking a bottle of frozen water to bed (17 percent), and even working from a paddling pool (three percent) are other strategies used by Britons to cool down.

Almost one in ten (nine percent) undergoes a sports-like ‘ice bath’ in their own wheelie bin and 14 percent sit with a wet tea towel on their head in front of a fan.

One in 20 Britons (five per cent) runs through fountains to shake off the heat, while some sleep in the garden (four per cent) and others eat the hottest curry imaginable (four per cent).

A chicken madras may not seem like the most obvious remedy, but eating spicy food can really help, by evaporating the sweat you perspire into the air and cooling the body, nutritionist Daniel O’Shaughnessy told Mail Online.

The top five methods in the list are completed by eating more ice cream (second, 53 percent), sleeping naked (third, 38 percent), closing the windows and curtains all day (fourth, 32 percent), and eating ice cream. to take. cold showers (fifth, 28 percent).

The research commissioned by ready to eat and which surveyed 2,000 adults further reveals that a large portion of the population (42 percent) absolutely hates it when there’s a heat wave.

Young people under 29 complain the most — up to 105 times a week — the findings show.

Eight in ten (83 per cent) agree that Britons are not suited to hot weather, with 60 per cent spending more time complaining about the weather in summer than in winter.

While four in ten (44 percent) admit to constantly longing for a cooling downpour during a heat wave.

Pret has introduced a new lineup of icy drinks to help the nation beat the heat wave this summer. And Londoners can cool off with a free iced drink from a refrigerated cart. Pret will be serving its brand new Shakers and Coolers to the public outside its Carnaby Street store on July 13 from 1pm to 3:30pm.