Best cooling blankets to help you sleep on hot nights
As a nation, there’s nothing we love more than discussing the weather, but usually, it’s about how cold or rainy it is.
When the sun comes to town, it triggers a national celebration - marked with garden party BBQs, ice cold drinks and lazing under shady trees in a park. Until nightfall that is.
A mid-summer nightmare
Because it’s an acute kind of torture trying to sleep when temperatures linger in the mid- to high-20s in the wee, early hours.
You know the score: sweaty hair sticking to the back of your neck, trying to stop your limbs touching, and venturing one, or two, hopeful legs out of the covers to catch any passing whisper of a breeze.
How to sleep in a hot weather
Farah Arshad, Head of Design at DUSK, offers some stay-cool tips:
- Invest in the right fabrics: use cotton pyjamas and invest in 100 per cent cotton bed linen. Egyptian cotton bed linen is lightweight and breathable, helping to keep you cool throughout the night.
- put a tray of ice in front of your fan. As it melts, the breeze will pick up the moisture and give off
