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In my wildest fantasies, summer looks like this: Im floating down a lazy river made of ros while watching a perfect sunset. My hair, perfectly wavy from the sea, is highlighted naturally from the sun, which complements an even, bronze glow.

In reality, come every July, I am a sticky, sweaty, frizzy-haired monster with a splotchy sunburn, five million mosquito bites and a chafing problem. A major chafing problem.

Look, Im grateful for the strong, powerful, thigh gap -less legs that take me everywhere I need to go on foot, my travel method of choice in warm weather. But the chafing. The chafing is so real. The sheer thought of doing any activity where my legs will rub against each other leaves a burning sensation and unsightly red bumps in its wake.

In past years, I have remedied this inevitable daily discomfort by wearing bike shorts under skirts and dresses, and cursing the day I wished for summer in the first place. Shorts are a perfectly suitable method of preventing your legs from sticking to each other, but in humidity, the thought of wearing yet another layer of clothing is daunting.

I cant really tell you why Id never considered anti-chafing remedies before. Perhaps a small part of me felt like they were BS theres no way a measly cream could prevent this cruel and unusual specific type of hell.

More likely, though, is that its the same reason I neglect to purchase anti-itch cream, despite the fact that I am covered in head-to-toe mosquito bites from Memorial Day through Halloween: Laziness.

I feel like people who use anti-itch cream on bug bites instead of just scratching them until they bleed have it more together than I do

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I feel like people who use anti-itch cream on bug bites instead of just scratching them until they bleed have it more together than I do
Jamie Feldman (@RealGirlProject) July 20, 2017

So when Mega Babe , a summer-solutions brand launched by The12ishStyles Katie Sturino debuted Thigh Rescue, a toxin-free stick that promised to provide a friction-free barrier that sits on top of skin, allowing thighs that touch to glide against each other instead of chafe, I had no excuse to not give it a try.

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