The Finnish sauna is considered by doctors to be an excellent method, which helps to cleanse the body of toxins and toxins and restore muscle tone. That is why visiting a sauna is recommended after physical exertion, sports training and fitness. Paired procedures help to relieve stress, relaxation. Sauna has a positive effect on the entire body skin.
According to the condition of the skin, its color, elasticity, elasticity, moisture and grease, the thickness of its layers, one can judge the state of the organism as a whole. It is believed that healthy skin, due to high-quality blood supply, has a pink color.
Useful properties of the Finnish sauna
The Finnish sauna improves the blood supply to the skin of the body. Visiting the sauna gives an excellent effect, which can not always be achieved by using conventional cosmetics. Positively the sauna influences at various diseases. Sauna heals psoriasis, urticaria, furunculosis, eczema, acne, helps with uncomplicated wounds and scars.
Sauna has an optimal ratio of humidity and temperature. In comparison with the Russian bath, the Finnish sauna is much hot: the temperature can reach 100 degrees, and humidity while holding at around 15 percent.
Heated air by inhalation contributes to the saturation of blood mucous airways, exciting cells and healthily acting on the body. With a strong warm-up of the body, metabolic processes improve, which has a favorable effect on the skin condition.
Earlier, visiting a Finnish sauna, people just warmed up, sweating, and did not use a broom. Now in the saunas of many countries, including in Finland, are bathed in brooms, sprinkling stones with water or infusions of herbs.
Visiting the Finnish sauna helps to remove toxins and toxins from the body, stimulate the blood supply of tissues, activate the heart, which leads to a positive result of the entire system of blood vessels and heart.
How to behave in a Finnish sauna?
Before entering the Finnish sauna, you must take a shower, without using soap, and wipe dry. Do not wet your hair. For those who have not previously been in the sauna, the first approach should not be longer than 4 minutes. For patrons of the sauna, calls should last seven to eight minutes. After the sauna, you need to rest for about 15 minutes, and the time for the following visits can be increased, but they should not exceed 15 minutes. Beginners and obese people should enter the sauna more often, but the calls should be shorter.
Between the calls it is recommended to take a cool shower, the temperature of the water should be gradually lowered. Also, when you visit the sauna, it is important to have a cool drink: mineral water, natural juices, kvass, herbal tea. In the sauna, it is appropriate to use masks, scrubs. You can carry out the wrapping procedure.
Women like to visit Finnish saunas because of their cosmetic effects. Specialists recommend the use of funds by popular recipes, and not bought in the store. The result from this or that time is not always predictable in conditions of high temperatures, and people's cosmetics have been checked by years and years of use.
Cosmetics for the sauna
Masks with natural ingredients can be used both after the sauna and in front of it. As a rule, you need to use several types of masks with different effects. Masks should be applied for no more than 20 minutes, and then rinse them and apply the following remedy.
On the oily skin you can apply a mask of honey, salt, egg yolk and yeast, ground coffee with honey, sour cream and salt, etc. For normal skin, various procedures and masks are suitable. Dry skin requires cleansing with a scrub, and then applying masks with honey, oat flakes, coffee. After the mask is removed, the dry skin should be moistened and saturated with vitamins.
The mask of honey and salt is the most accessible and simple mask suitable for a Finnish sauna. Honey is put close to the oven, and salt is poured into it in small portions and waiting until it dissolves. Hot steam and such a mask helps to open the pores, remove slags, cleanse the skin and restore it.
The coffee mask is also very popular. You need to take coffee grounds or ground coffee and apply gently on the skin with gentle movements. If the skin is dry, you can add sour cream or olive oil. The mask should be washed off with warm water.
Fruit masks also have many fans. They need to be applied after the steam room. Very effective masks that have in their composition natural ingredients (strawberries, apples, bananas). The pores of the skin are open and cleaned, so all important substances of natural products are easily absorbed by the skin.
Finnish sauna and wrapping
When visiting a Finnish sauna, you can carry out the wrapping procedure. The simplest thing is wrapping with green tea. This procedure helps in the fight against cellulite, smooth out the structure of the skin and awaken vitality in the skin of the body.
Boil 5 tablespoons of water. l. ground to a green tea powder, stir until a slurry is obtained. In it add half a spoonful of cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of honey and stir until homogeneous. While the mixture has not cooled down, it needs to be applied to problem areas, wrap them with a film and warm up for 15 minutes. After that, the gruel is washed off and an anti-cellulite cream is applied to the skin. Contraindications for such a mask are the inflammation of the appendages and varicose veins.
Finam created an unusual mask and wrap for the sauna. In Finland there is a lot of peat, which is called "ground oil" and is used everywhere and in everything. In medicine, it is used for the normalization of metabolic processes, healing of heart diseases, skin problems, kidney and joint diseases; in tailoring - for making clothes, unique in its naturalness and environmental friendliness.
In Finnish saunas, a peat hood is used to relieve pain, improve metabolism, calm nerves, normalize the hormonal background.
The elements in the peat contribute to the improvement of the skin, making it fresh and softer.
Contraindications
A Finnish sauna for the human body can cause harm. So it is contraindicated for her to visit those who suffer from tuberculosis, oncology, low blood coagulability, and also to people with high fever, galloping pressure.