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Blogger Katie Sturino was fed up with the way her thighs would chafe while wearing skirts, dresses, swimsuits and short shorts.

“I tried everything,” says the 34-year-old West Chelsea resident. “I used Gold Bond. I tried Spanx under my dresses. I tried the Bandelette, which is basically the top of a thigh-high.”

But nothing stopped the painful rubbing and pulling.

“Every solution that I’ve used has been a work-around, not like, ‘This is made for you, you’re a cute woman on the go,’ ” Sturino says.

So she took matters into her own hands to create Megababe, a beauty brand that sells an anti-chafe stick called Thigh Rescue ($14). The solid formula creates a barrier on the skin that lets thighs glide against one another. Active ingredients give skin a boost, too — grapeseed oil hydrates, while aloe soothes any inflammation.

The product has struck a chord with women.

“People say, ‘I walked on the beach for the first time in a swimsuit,’ or, ‘I wore shorts for the first time,’ ” Sturino says.

Next up for the brand are Bust Dust ($16, available for pre-order), a talc-free powder spray that soaks up any underboob sweat, and Rosy Pits ($14, available later this summer), an aluminum-free deodorant scented with tuberose, cucumber and coconut.

All of the products are “toxin-free” and paraben-free, says Sturino, and unabashedly girly.

A cute, Instagrammable product, she says, takes “some of the shame and stigma out of the problem.”

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