approximately 8-15 minutes sweating,
about 15 minutes and cool down
about 15 minutes rest.
However, this can only serve as an initial orientation to find any steam room visitors must find its own rhythm. Every day is different, is the supreme policy sentience. Inexperienced steam room-goers should consult an operation with a steam room master.
Steam room in Finland
The steam room is an integral part of Finnish culture. In almost every house (including tenements and cottages), private steam room is available for relaxation and body cleansing. In the traditional form replaces the steam room, the bathroom, ie the complete body cleansing takes place there, in modern houses partially collapsed bathroom and steam room. When was created in earlier times, a new house was first built in the steam room building. The steam room was the only room where there was hot water, the cleanest and most sterile also, why were the children born there. Babies are taken early on in the steam room, which is medically acceptable in moderation.
In detached houses is sometimes a steam room in the basement, in older houses in a separate building, which includes mostly also a relaxation room, a shed, and possibly an outside toilet. In apartment buildings, there is often a communal steam room, which the tenant share plan after a steam room. In the 90 years it has moved increasingly to well in small apartments with a small steam room in the bathroom installed. In apartment buildings, the steam room is usually heated electrically. However, the Finns continue to swear on a traditional heating with wood.
A traditional form of the Finnish steam room is the smoke steam room (Finnish savusteam room). Here is a big pile of rocks for several hours, usually all day long heated with large pieces of wood, which spreads out the smoke in the steam room room itself. If the fire is extinguished, the ashes are cleared away, the smoke goes through a hole into the ceiling, sometimes wiping the soot from the bench. Now, a strong infusion made without first steam room-goers, through the remainder of the smoke from the steam room “driven” is. Now the steam room can be used for several hours. The pile of stones heated while the steam room room to continue and also serves as kiuas (rock piles for the infusion). The infusion vapor spreads through the large volume of stone very “soft” in the room.