If the stifling weather is getting you down, try our top ten cooling tips to leave you feeling fresh and chilled.

1. Wonder-worker REN’s Revivo Tonic Cool Comfort Leg and Foot Gel, £18, is perfect for soothing and cooling tired and hot legs and feet, although don’t be scared to use it on your arms too. Using a blend of calming essential oils, and natural extracts of caffeine to encourage fluid build up to drain away, it’s reviving and infinitely refreshing.

2. Freeze two small size bottles of mineral water. Place one in front of your desk fan to get instantly cooling air con! As soon as the first has melted, replace with the second, remembering to re-freeze the first.

3. Kept in the fridge, John Masters Rosewater, £16.00, is the aromatic antidote to hot and stressed skin. Using calming rose essential oils, the chilled mist will revive and calm on the hottest of days.

4. Soak a flannel in water blended with 3 drops of soothing essential oils such as rose and lavender. Keep it refrigerated for an instant pick me up at any time of day, and particularly on hot nights.

5. Dermalogica’s Soothing Protection Spray, £20.40, uses a blend of green tea, cucumber and raspberry extracts to soothe away skin irritation. Hot skin is prone to itchiness, redness and inflammation and this is full of healing properties to calm and revive. Use it wherever, whenever your skin is acting up.

6. An icy spritz of L’Occitane Mint Green Tea Eau de Toilette, £26, is exactly what’s needed when spirits are low and you are feeling just too hot. Sweet mint boosts the refreshing element of green tea and leaves you cooled and smelling fresh.

7. Add a half a capful of Aromatherapy Associates Revive Morning Bath & Shower Oil, £28, to a pint of warm water. Allow it too cool and freeze into ice cubes. Bursting with essential oils of pink grapefruit, rosemary and pine, run the cubes over your body when you are truly overheated for a luxurious way to cool off and calm down.

8. Try sleeping with damp hair, since the cooling the head is the best way to cool the body, too. Either spritz through with cold water before you go to sleep or leave it wet after your shower.

9. In the heat, any heavy duty moisturisers are likely to you’re your skin feel weighed down, and certainly will make you sweat more. Keeping to a light milk allows your skin to absorb the moisture more quickly and easily. Korres Basil Lemon Body Milk, £8.50, is about as summery as moisturising milks get, infused with zesty lemons and refreshing basil.

10. Finally, if you have overdone it in the sun, and skin is sore and dry, look for products containing Aloe, one of nature’s most calming skincare ingredients. Find it in Calmia Rainforest Hydrating Lotion, £19.50, Korres Aloe Vera Aftersun Moisturising Body Milk, £12.50, and Ole Henriksen All Purpose Aloe Vera Gel, £35. Keep them all in the fridge until needed to double the soothing powers.