You forgot one essential cooling tactic - the luke warm to cold shower! Getting home and inside from a stinking hot day, and the first thing to do is to strip and jump into the shower. An unpleasantly warm house is much more bearable if you aren't overheated already.

My summer shower trick for as long as I've had long hair is cold water only, and to run it straight onto my head, stripping the water out with my hands. When the water that runs out of my hair stops feeling warm on my back, I've cooled off enough to get out, and not before.