The first thing that hits your mind while you think about saunas is ‘relaxation’. Yes, saunas do make you feel relaxed, but they do many more things on top. They help in getting relieved from pain and help your muscles get recovered. They may also differ based on their setting and design, such as forest room, kit box style, arctic room or portable saunas. But besides all this, some fun facts about them would make you drop your jaw and give them a try at least once.
Discover what they all have got to amaze you:
- The traditional heated saunas use woods to create smoke, and the doors are closed once the room is filled with smoke and the wood is burned down. Saunas are the most natural type of therapy you can give to yourself.
- Other than hot smoke and steam therapy, saunas are also used to give cold therapies, where the temperature drops to freezing degrees. This type of sauna is setting is called Arctic room.
- In every traditional sauna room, you will find a basket full of heated rock pieces. Do you know what they are for? They are kept there to increase the humidity. Water is thrown on these scorching stones to produce the steam that makes the inside environment humid.
- Traditionally, the Himalayan salt therapies are done in the salt mines themselves. But now, to build a Himalayan salt room, Himalayan salt rocks are imported, which are then cut into translucent bricks and tiles. These walls are made translucent to allow backlighting.
- Nowadays, portable saunas are also in use which you can fold and pack to carry with you and unfold when you want to use it.
Splendid detox with Saunas!
This is the reason why they are so often used after working out. Other than the physical benefits, saunas improve brain health and help you fight stress. It burns calories, cleanses the skin, induces better sleep and whatnot. And as now they are practised in such exciting and fun ways, there should not be a second thought about trying them out. Saunas make you feel good. Even if you enter a sauna room without any aimed purpose, you will heal and feel relaxed once you come out.
