Life Hack: Three useful tips to help keep you feeling fresh and cool during a heatwave

From evaporative cooling to cooling your drinks, here are a few tricks to make the warm weather more bearable

These three hacks will make the heat feel less oppressive

Keeping yourself cool 

Feeling clammy and uncomfortable? For many, a heatwave feels unbearable but there are some simple ways to make yourself feel better. If you’re struggling to sleep at night without the relief of a cold pillow under your head, there’s an almost-too-obvious solution: freeze your pillowcase. Some people swear by freezing their pillow but realistically, who has that much space in the freezer between the ice creams and frozen pizzas? Instead, pop the pillowcase into a plastic bag and place it into the freezer for 10 minutes, remove it and return it to your pillow. The accelerated freezing effect will feel like such a relief. If you think you’ll wake in the night due to the heat, however, keep a backup pillowcase in the freezer so you can replace the now-warm one.