diff --git a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
index 5f4eac5267622f..795e5e2006c7b8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
@@ -1567,14 +1567,13 @@ def test_open(self):
 
     @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.utf8_mode, "utf-8 mode is enabled")
     def test_open_default_encoding(self):
-        old_environ = dict(os.environ)
-        try:
+        with EnvironmentVarGuard() as env:
             # try to get a user preferred encoding different than the current
             # locale encoding to check that open() uses the current locale
             # encoding and not the user preferred encoding
             for key in ('LC_ALL', 'LANG', 'LC_CTYPE'):
-                if key in os.environ:
-                    del os.environ[key]
+                if key in env:
+                    del env[key]
 
             self.write_testfile()
             current_locale_encoding = locale.getencoding()
@@ -1583,9 +1582,6 @@ def test_open_default_encoding(self):
                 fp = open(TESTFN, 'w')
             with fp:
                 self.assertEqual(fp.encoding, current_locale_encoding)
-        finally:
-            os.environ.clear()
-            os.environ.update(old_environ)
 
     @support.requires_subprocess()
     def test_open_non_inheritable(self):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index 81c17b2731cc58..d37c43d57c3593 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -2892,14 +2892,13 @@ def test_reconfigure_line_buffering(self):
 
     @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.utf8_mode, "utf-8 mode is enabled")
     def test_default_encoding(self):
-        old_environ = dict(os.environ)
-        try:
+        with os_helper.EnvironmentVarGuard() as env:
             # try to get a user preferred encoding different than the current
             # locale encoding to check that TextIOWrapper() uses the current
             # locale encoding and not the user preferred encoding
             for key in ('LC_ALL', 'LANG', 'LC_CTYPE'):
-                if key in os.environ:
-                    del os.environ[key]
+                if key in env:
+                    del env[key]
 
             current_locale_encoding = locale.getencoding()
             b = self.BytesIO()
@@ -2907,9 +2906,6 @@ def test_default_encoding(self):
                 warnings.simplefilter("ignore", EncodingWarning)
                 t = self.TextIOWrapper(b)
             self.assertEqual(t.encoding, current_locale_encoding)
-        finally:
-            os.environ.clear()
-            os.environ.update(old_environ)
 
     def test_encoding(self):
         # Check the encoding attribute is always set, and valid
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_locale.py b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
index 00e93d8e78443d..d97def81a37ef3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_locale.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from decimal import Decimal
-from test.support import verbose, is_android, is_emscripten, is_wasi
+from test.support import verbose, is_android, is_emscripten, is_wasi, os_helper
 from test.support.warnings_helper import check_warnings
 from test.support.import_helper import import_fresh_module
 from unittest import mock
@@ -499,27 +499,18 @@ def test_defaults_UTF8(self):
         else:
             orig_getlocale = None
 
-        orig_env = {}
-        try:
+        with os_helper.EnvironmentVarGuard() as env:
             for key in ('LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG', 'LANGUAGE'):
-                if key in os.environ:
-                    orig_env[key] = os.environ[key]
-                    del os.environ[key]
-
-            os.environ['LC_CTYPE'] = 'UTF-8'
-
-            with check_warnings(('', DeprecationWarning)):
-                self.assertEqual(locale.getdefaultlocale(), (None, 'UTF-8'))
-
-        finally:
-            for k in orig_env:
-                os.environ[k] = orig_env[k]
+                del env[key]
 
-            if 'LC_CTYPE' not in orig_env:
-                del os.environ['LC_CTYPE']
+            env['LC_CTYPE'] = 'UTF-8'
 
-            if orig_getlocale is not None:
-                _locale._getdefaultlocale = orig_getlocale
+            try:
+                with check_warnings(('', DeprecationWarning)):
+                    self.assertEqual(locale.getdefaultlocale(), (None, 'UTF-8'))
+            finally:
+                if orig_getlocale is not None:
+                    _locale._getdefaultlocale = orig_getlocale
 
     def test_getencoding(self):
         # Invoke getencoding to make sure it does not cause exceptions.