| Saunas enjoy huge popularity in their native Finland | | | | nicotine. |
| where the benefits of their use are instilled into the | | | | Thirdly, the activity of taking a sauna is universally |
| Finish population from an early age. | | | | accepted as a rejuvenating experience that relaxes |
| A sauna is used to create an unnaturally high ambient | | | | muscles, dissipates tension and revitalises the sauna |
| air temperature in which the sauna user sits and | | | | taker. Ultimately, it makes you feel good. |
| relaxes whilst enjoying either a dry or a humid heat | | | | Health benefits of a wet sauna |
| experience. Both dry and wet saunas are popular and | | | | When a sauna is used to generate wet heat it |
| both offer a number of health benefits that are | | | | becomes hot and humid and creates an experience |
| expanded upon below. | | | | that many call a steam shock or a steam shower. This |
| Health benefits of a dry sauna | | | | added humidity changes the characteristics of the |
| Most saunas are used to create a hot but dry | | | | sauna and also the effects that it can have on the |
| environment where the temperature can get as high | | | | body. |
| as 80 degrees centigrade. The lack of humidity makes | | | | Firstly, the increase in humidity produces deep |
| these levels of heat bearable whilst significantly raising | | | | cleansing of the skin by hydrating the skin and |
| the body temperature. It is these elevated body | | | | eliminating toxins. This not only makes the skin feel |
| temperatures that provide a number of potential health | | | | good, but it can also fight the effects of aging and |
| advantages and which make the sauna experience a | | | | even reduce wrinkles. |
| pleasurable one. | | | | Secondly, high humidity can be good for the respiration |
| Firstly, the sauna heat increases the body's metabolic | | | | and many who suffer from asthma, a chesty cough, |
| rate which improves the circulation of all bodily fluids. | | | | or a sore throat, find a wet sauna beneficial and |
| This in turn has a similar effect to taking mild exercise | | | | relaxing. The high humidity can also ease throat, nose |
| with comparable calorie burning effects. | | | | and chest congestion and aid breathing. |
| Secondly, toxic chemicals and bacteria, which are | | | | Thirdly, just like a dry sauna, a wet sauna is great for |
| unable to tolerate the levels of heat that are sustained | | | | de-stressing, winding down and muscle relaxation. |
| within a sauna, are killed off. The sauna is also | | | | Humid saunas increase the body's metabolism and |
| effective at opening the pores, releasing toxins and | | | | burn calories and they also leave the sauna taker |
| assisting in the removal of poisons like alcohol and | | | | feeling invigorated and energized. |