We bathe wisely: the main rules of bath procedures

How to get only benefit and pleasure from a bath: answers to important questions

The bathhouse is one of the most powerful pleasures available to man, and after a good steam bath you feel as if you were born again. But even in a very good bath, you can bathe at random, without experiencing any joy. And we cannot allow this in any way! In this article, experienced FORUMHOUSE bath attendants answer the most important questions about steam cake, brooms, serving formulas and steaming technologies.

Content

• What is steam pie and how to create it?
• What to add to the water for the give and what for the accent?
• How effective is it to steam yourself?
• How to properly hover another?

What should be the temperature in the bath? I know steelmakers who soar at 100 degrees, are they right?

A comfortable environment in the steam room, the so-called "light steam", is achieved at an air temperature of 50-70 ° C and at a humidity of 40-60%. Steam should not burn the skin and nasal mucosa when breathing. It should be easy to breathe and swing the broom without gloves.

How to steam properly together?

• The paired person lies on his stomach with his arms extended along the body. The bather strokes him several times with a broom from feet to head. In the opposite direction, the broom is led first along one side, then along the other.
• The bather captures the hot air from the steam cake with a broom, lowers the broom on the lower back of the steamed person, presses with his hand for 2-3 seconds. it compress.
• The bather strokes the broom while steaming with the lower part, first in different directions on the back, then on the lower back, pelvis, calves and feet. Stitching take 1-2 minutes and end with intense stroking.
• Then the bather goes to whipping: captures hot air and whips all over the body with a broom. After every few whips, you can make a compress;
• Then follows puffing - after a slight wave of the broom, the bather lightly touches the body of the steamed person and passes from head to toe from different sides several times.
• Soaring ends rubbing: one hand holds the broom by the handle, the other rubs the whole body through the broom leaves.

And what is this steam pie? What is it for?

The cake is a thick (about half a meter) layer of vigorous steam that hangs from the ceiling of the steam room. Infrared radiation from the cake additionally heats the body of the person being steamed.

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The bather takes a part of the steam from the cake with brooms and distributes it over the body of the steamed person, making poultices. The bather must accurately dose the steam, partially mix it in order to steam the body and not scald it.

It is believed that soaring ferry pie gives a greater effect than the so-called conditioned steamobtained from the stove and evenly filling the steam room from floor to ceiling.

But a person is comfortable in air-conditioned steam, which does not burn and does not force people to leave the steam room screaming. And many professional bathers favor conditioned steam.

So what kind of steam is preferred?

Even the bathing guru there is no unanimity on this issue. But many fans of the steam bath strive to create a "beach" mode on the shelf and at the same time a pronounced layer of steam under the ceiling.

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FORUMHOUSE member

From the beach mode by enveloping the whole body, a person is transferred to a state of bath orgasm, creating a zone of conditioned steam around him. But it should be possible to add vigorous steam of the cake to the steaming area and create different types of steam in general over the steamed one or for local heating of body parts.

Can you create a steam cake in any steam room?

No. Only in one in which the temperature of heated objects (casing, chimney, etc.) does not exceed the air temperature. It is impossible to create a stable steam cake in a steam room with ventilation ducts and drafts. In the steam room of a real Russian bath, only volley ventilation is allowed.

But is there enough volley ventilation to refresh the bath between visits?

Quite. In between calls, it is enough to open the doors and the window in the steam room. But sauna connoisseurs also make a hole under the shelf, at a height of one meter from the floor. To create the effect "no one has steamed here yet", a shock dose of water is thrown onto the heater, and a bucket of cold water is immediately poured onto the shelf. The steam from the ceiling will fly into the vent and take the stale air with it. This method is not suitable for dry-air baths, steam rooms with a solid floor and no drain.

In my family, only I love to bathe. Will I be able to steam myself effectively?

Yes. Experienced bath attendants advise this technology:

• Warm up the first time (better lying down).
• Warm up thoroughly again.
• Relax without cooling, but until the heartbeat normalizes.

• Steamed in a pose that allows working with a broom without straining: the head rests freely on the wall, the back - on an inclined support, the legs are bent. The abs and neck should not strain! Place one leg on the bent knee of the other, steam the knee and thigh with a broom, repeat for the other leg.
• Sit in the coachman's pose: one hand rests on the hips with an elbow, the other handles the back and shoulders with a broom. We change hands.
• Relax, if you wish, make a few more short runs and in an aggressive mode steam your feet, lower back and shoulders, the rest is optional.

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FORUMHOUSE member

It is very important to steam your feet - they have projections of all organs. Got it from the Finns.

Tell us about the brooms: what should they be made of, should they be steamed?

The steam from a classic birch broom greatly expands the small bronchi, which is why it is so easy to breathe after you steam up. An oak broom is good for people with problem skin. Linden helps to ward off colds. Eucalyptus broom is considered medicinal, it helps with a sore throat. In the steam room, he is pressed to his face and breathed for 5-10 minutes.

There is no need to steam fresh brooms, otherwise they will get wet. A dry broom is poured with cold water for 15 minutes, then in hot water for 3-5 minutes. And only if the broom is dry, it is steamed in boiling water.

What herbal infusions are best to splash on the steaming stove?

For vaping - none.

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Steam for vaping is steam from pure hot water only.

So-called accents are made from herbal infusions. Here are our top users for steam accents:

• thyme;
• lemon balm;
• mint;
• yarrow;
• currant.

How to create a fragrant accent? Just pour a decoction of herbs into the stove?

It is possible and so, but there are nuances. To avoid smoke from burnt organic matter and so that the steam extracts useful phytoncides from herbs, the broth is splashed not on hot stones, but on stones whose temperature is slightly above 100 degrees.

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To do this, in my furnace, the upper lid is concave with the letter V, stones from Ilmen are piled up there, and they are heated by the exhaust gases.

For the same reason, you cannot add aromatic oils to the water for giving - just drip them onto linden planks.

More ways:

• put a saucepan on the stove in which water will boil, and put a colander with fresh grass in boiling water;
• dip a bunch of dry herbs into hot water, remove, hold by the heater while giving steam, put on a shelf;
• additionally cover the shelf with hay from herbs.

The point is to get not just pleasant smells, but a healing and health-improving effect.

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Add propolis infusion to a bunch with steamed brooms, you will get not only a wonderful aroma, but also a good inhalation.

Sometimes after a bath I feel tired and overwhelmed, apparently, I was sweaty?

Most likely, you are not overcooked, but poisoned. In a bath with convection ovens, you need to use flavors (and even herbal decoctions) with great care. In the convection mode, the steam room air passes many times along the highly heated surfaces of the stove and hot stones, the organic matter burns out and turns into substances harmful to health.

Can children be taken to the bathhouse?

Yes, but first you need to consult with your pediatrician to clarify if your child can be exposed to regular heat stress. In any case, you need to limit the temperature in the steam room to 60-70 degrees and the child's stay time to 5-10 minutes.

Recommend a good drink that you can drink in the sauna

A FORUMHOUSE participant with the nickname found out a wonderful recipe for a bath drink in Sandunovsky Baths OLDR.

Squeeze the juice from two lemons, add a bottle of mineral water and 100 grams of honey.

But most of our keen bathers drink vitamin teas from herbs and fruits that are grown on their site in the bathhouse. The composition of the tea depends on the purpose:

• Cleanse the body - strawberry leaf;
• Cure colds - linden blossom, raspberry leaf and berries;
• To restore the body after heavy loads - rose hips, blueberries, mountain ash.

The portal contains a lot of information on bathing traditions: look at the section "Russian sauna". If the bath is only in the plans - educational program to help. For the steam to be "correct" pay attention to the stone backfill. In the video - about the bath, in which they not only take a steam bath, but also live.

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