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Using your sauna
Here is a little advice just to be certain that you enjoy your home sauna to its full potential:
- Take a shower and enter the sauna while still wet
- Relax for a few minutes and let the heat work on your body and open the
pores of the skin
- Step out of the sauna to cool down, take a cooler shower - to get
thoroughly clean before going back to the sauna. Then take your time
to relax and enjoy the warmth
- You may follow this procedure as many times as you feel comfortable with.
Two or three times is about the average with time in the sauna ranging from
five to fifteen minutes
- Complete the sauna experience with a cooling off period by relaxing with a
cold drink
The recommended temperature in a sauna for beginners is between 60 and 90 degrees
Celsius with the air humidity between 10% and 25%, going up to as much as 60%
when throwing water onto the rocks. Although splashing water on the rocks
first causes a surge of hot steam from the heater, it eventually cools down the
sauna. The more humid the sauna the more you sweat. A fifteen minute
sauna can induce up to half a litre of sweat.
The air can be relatively dry and the humidity controlled by the sprinkling
of water over the stones. However the air must never be completely dry as
it could be harmful to the respiratory system.
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