It ranges from a quick five-minute steam room session in between until the regular hour-long marathon steam room. In addition, the steam rooms and the breaks depends on the temperature inside and outside the steam room as well as from social events around the steam room. Basically unknown in the Finnish steam room is a lifeguard. Logs in the private steam room anyway, but in most public steam rooms for on and off or for firewood. For the right amount for an infusion of Saunierende only knows. The infusion usually makes the person who sits next to the Bucket, often on the top bench, where the temperature can be best appreciated. As a rule, the unwritten law “sillä puheet kenellä kuuppa” is followed, which loosely translated means something like “Who has the scoop, the word”. Every few minutes, poured on water, so that sufficient steam and heat is created, which eliminates the fronds with the towel. Moreover, it is considered polite in Finland, when a fresh entrant in the steam room room Santander a ladle of water over the stones throw to the damage caused by opening the door for heat loss of the sense of balance. In public and in larger families, the Finns in general practice segregation. For larger family reunions it may well happen that will sauniert between once or several times a day. Traditionally, Christmas is also the steam room on Christmas Eve, in which one purifies himself for the following celebrations.
The addition of essential oils to pouring water from one region to spread to different degrees, in some places rather frowned upon and not belonging to the Finnish steam room. More common is likely to add fragrance oils directly into the ladle for throwing a water and take away from the beer and birch twigs in the steam room. A favorite scent here is that of tar, so it smells of the infusion to the inside of an old sailing schooner. The lightweight ‘whips’ the skin with birch twigs have a similar stimulating effect of massage, this will also spread a pleasant scent birch. When whips made the birch leaves, a substance that exerts a mild soap-like effect. The birch clump hot in western Finland in Eastern Finland and Vihta vasta, the respective population-jokingly doggedly maintains the belief that only “their” name is the only correct one. The birch bunches are collected and stored in the spring, or it can be used fresh frozen bunches from the supermarket. Sometimes they are also dried for use in the steam room in hot water made ready for use.
After using the steam room, the cooling is carried out in the fresh air or taking a shower. If possible, also like a bath is taken in the lake or rolling in the snow. The cooling takes so long to get ready for the next steam room feel. Drinking is common between the steam room sessions. Beer, juice or lemonade are preferred here.
After the last steam room is the body cleansing, either in the steam room itself or an adjacent shower. The duration of a complete steam room visit is highly individualized and is often between one and three hours.