Sauna Tips

Come in, enjoy the soothing warmth. Body and mind come to rest, your muscles relax. You now have another place where you can spend time with friends and family or where you can take a break from everyday life alone.

• For a full sauna bath, plan at least two hours. Don't go to the sauna cabin with a full stomach or hungry. You should provide enough towels and drinks. Furthermore, you will need bathing sandals, soap, shampoo and a bathrobe (especially for visiting public transport). area).
• Take a thorough shower before your first sauna session and then dry yourself well (dry skin sweats faster).
• The duration of a sauna session is often between 8-15 minutes. But pay attention to your body feeling and less to the time. Ideally, put Dch on the bench. If you like to sit, pull your legs up on the bench if possible. To get your circulation used to the upright posture again, you should sit on the bench for the last two minutes.
• You determine the frequency of the infusions yourself, there are no rules for this. Does your Sauna via an aroma or vital brine pot, fill it up in advance and, depending on your taste, add some fragrance to the aroma pot, the salty air or the scent is pleasantly mild in the sauna and the constant light humidity ensures a pleasant comfort.
• It is advisable to cool the airways in the fresh air. Then cool your body in the shower or with a Kneipp hose. If you can and if you like it, you can use a cold-water plunge pool (not for high blood pressure).
• A foot warming bath (approx. 40°C warm, water ankle-high) serves to balance body temperature.
• A subsequent rest period complements the relaxing effects of the sauna.
• You will perform the other sauna sessions as described above. For the desired health effects, 3 sauna sessions are sufficient. It is more important to enjoy the sauna bath regularly than the number of individual sauna sessions. After 8-10 days you can refresh the positive effects of the sauna.
• After the sauna bath, you should take some time before you get dressed so that you can adjust to the room temperature.

During the sauna sessions and afterwards, thirst can be quenched well with water or fruit drinks.

Sauna bathing promotes physical relaxation as well as mental well-being. Sports activities should ideally always precede sauna bathing. If you do sports that put a lot of strain on the circulation, please wait until your pulse rate has returned to normal. Hearty meals, alcohol and tests of strength are not part of the sauna bath! Sauna bathing also causes a quite thorough, but also gentle body cleansing. Due to the circulation-promoting effect, the regular sweat bath also serves skin care and slows down skin aging.

Try something new: For example, rub your skin with soothing honey. Or try it according to old tradition with a birch tassel, even if it seems strange to some for the first time, you will feel like you have created something new afterwards.

If you have an organic sauna heater, then use Mediterranean herbs such as rosemary, thyme or lavender in summer and a salt scrub on a mild thunderstorm night. Another nice side effect of the bio sauna heater is that the windows fog up, if you put candles in front of it (outside the sauna), you have romantic lighting in front of the sauna and your favorite room becomes even cosier.

When bathing in the sauna / alternating heat and cooling to the body

• Hardening (defenses against infections are increased)
• Skin cleansing (skin care)
• Psyche and muscles relax
• effective training for blood pressure normalization
• Improvement of blood circulation in the skin
• Mild training for the heart and circulation

Warm-up phase

• Skin and core body temperature increase (overheating)
• Skin blood circulation and sweat production increases
• Skin cooling through evaporation of sweat
• Psyche and muscles relax
• Blood pressure normalization (compensation for low or high blood pressure)

Cooling-off phase

• Skin and core body temperature normalize
• Peripheral blood vessels are trained
• Psychological stimulation

Interior

With Karibu wood oil, the benches, backrest, intermediate panel and headrest are oiled so that the surface stays clean for longer. Mild cleaning of the interior is carried out with natural, fragrant soft soap.

Further information on the Choosing the right sauna accessories in our advice area!

Checking the stone magazine

You should check the stone magazine a few times a year, especially if you use the sauna frequently. Proceed as follows: Remove all stones from the magazine. Vacuum out small stone debris and gravel and remove the debris from the stone magazine. Place the undamaged stones in the magazine and replace all cracked stones with new ones. Every 2 years (private use) the stones should be replaced.

Further design

You can further design and equip your sauna outside and inside:

Exterior

Paint your sauna walls with breathable paint according to your wishes, and have drywall used drywall to transform the outer walls into an almost normal house wall, which you can also tile if the substrate is suitable.

A cladding above the sauna cabin must be provided with at least one opening so that this cavity is ventilated and, if necessary, have an inspection opening.

Interior

Floor grate, headrests, backrest and bench panel sets for the interior. Wall or corner lights, coloured light and music can best be installed when installing the sauna.

For the Heater an aroma or vital brine pot is suitable.