FINNISH SAUNAS

In Finland, the first to be built in the house it’s a sauna. The  country has always used the sauna as a method for washing and purifying the skin. It’s almost like a ritual that consists of several steps: the first one, the Finnish take a bath in the sauna, sitting on the bench and without clothes. The steam is obtained by heating water on stones that have been heated previously. The steam makes you sweat a lot, so that, through the skin, they expell all impure substances from the body, then dump a bucket of cold water overhead, which previously have taken from a river. Cold water activates the circulation of the blood. After a massage made with birch branches, because in the pores of the skin rubbed with branches that provide sui more. Then all washed with soap and hot water, which also have a bucket. The heat has sedative effects, to boldly confront the last step. Finally, stretch and wallow in the snow next to the sauna. Finland is very cold and the snow covers everything for several months a year. In some countries there are saunas.

This is a luxurious Finnish sauna.

The benefits of the sauna are improving the irrigation of blood, and calms the nerves. In addition to the purification of the body.

A curiosity of the saunas is that there are two million for five million people, and this tradition is sacred for Finns.

Saunas emerged as a way to wash when the water was frozen. Warm room and a wood boiler hot container with stones. Then they threw water or ice on the rocks, the water evaporates and thus produce humidity, the people inside started to sweat, washing them.

Electric stoves are now used, although there are Finns who have traditional saunas.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
http://colegiolapurisima.org/lenguas/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/TEXT-EXPOSITIU.-an%C3%A0lisi.pdf
http://www.biginfinland.com/sauna/
http://www.biginfinland.com/20-curiosidades-de-finlandia/

CONCLUSION:
In Finland all the poblation have a sauna to relax and purify, I think it's a good idea and I would like to have a sauna too but if I'd have a sauna I'd be everyday and everytime inside relaxing and no-one could take me out.