Your Absolute Summer Essentials

While I don’t particularly need to remind you of this as I write something similar every year, I just thought I need to make a mention of these things once again, to get you into one killer Cape Town summer. Right, so let’s kick it off!

Deodorant

You’re never going to come right with those woman in Camps Bay if you smell like a Chilean miner, trust me. About 6 years ago I stopped wearing regular deodorants because of all the aluminium and rubbish in them, which isn’t good for you at all. I bought a deodorant which is purified water and natural mineral salts. Naturally I never thought it was going to ever work and I was going to pit and smell horrendous. But it worked, and I’ve never looked back. People still don’t believe that it works, but it really does and I’ll never use any other deodorant. It’s available at Dis Chem for about R22.

A white v-neck t shirt

I don’t need to say anything more about this. It works with anything, it doesn’t require any excess dyes or inks for printing so is more environmentally friendly than those ridiculous lumo shirts from Markhams. Get the white 100% organic cotton shirts from Woolworths. I buy around 10 at a time, R70 each, and I have t shirts that last me the entire year, and longer.

Sebago Docksides

The ultimate summer shoe that lets people know that yes, you are a man of leisure. I’ve spoken about these before. Click HERE to read all about them.

Island Tribe sunscreen

Piz Buin let me down by adding oxybenzone to their formulation, which made me break out in a rash (HERE) Island Tribe came to the rescue with thier range of local sunscreens. They’re water resistant and go on dry…and they’re the best sunscreens I’ve ever used. You’ll find Island Tribe all over this body of mine this summer! In and around my mouth! Ahem…

Click here for the Island Tribe website.

Lipsano

For the softest lips! (Facial) While guys want to be all manly and stuff, trust me, no woman likes kissing lips that feel like sandpaper. The sun burns the life out of your lips, because they can’t protect themselves. I use SPF35 Lipsano, made from ingredients such as lanolin, beeswax, shea butter, cocoa seed butter and menthol. It is simply the best lip protector out there this summer! I like to keep a few tubs handy, so that we can all kiss each other this summer…smoothly 😉

Click here for the Lipsano website.

Baby Powder

Seriously, dust some of that in your pants…you’ve never felt better! I use the Woolworths natural baby powder…because the chemicals from the other ones might in fact mean that I grow a third ball…and we’ll agree, that this is not quite ‘ideal’

A cool pair of cargo shorts

Go for like an island theme…it let’s people know that, yes, you do have a Swiss bank account and you know how to cross reference hedge funds, but yet you are a man of leisure, a man of the beach, a man of Cape Town. You don’t have to be a preppy bitch and buy the most expensive ones from Billabong. I got these for R80 from Mr Price. But then again I do wear it with a R7000 watch. Mix the cheap with the expensive. That’s how we do it. And don’t get baggy ones like at Aca Joe. You just look common.

A cool pair of board shorts

Lumo is cool if you’re a Reddam student about to get his first hair on ball. For the rest, go for classic style. I got these last season from Country Road. It let’s people know that I don’t take myself too seriously, but I am still awesome. They’re about R400 from Country Road, but I really wanted that pair. And they’re 100% cotton, unlike Billabong who easily sell recycled board shorts for R800. Have you seen that? Billabong make boardshorts from old PET plastic bottles, and then sell them for R800 because they’re eco friendly. So you’re paying R800 for shorts so some corporate doos at Billabong can get a new fuel munching BMW 750i to run to the shops in. Nice one Billabong…nice one.

I think that sums up the absolute basics for summer…now just get the tan, drop the top on the car, and go out and attack summer!

This ones yours for the taking.