What are the benefits of the sauna for health? | Beer Spa Spain

Would you like to know more about the benefits of the sauna? It is much more than a place, where you can spend a pleasant and relaxing time. You can also get a lot of benefits for you health depending on the type of sauna you choose.

Saunas were very popular in ancient civilizations, such as the Romans, Aztecs, etc. So our ancestor already knew or sensed that saunas were good for health. For this reason, later other people adapted it, for example the Russians, the Japanese or Finnish.

Are all the saunas the same?

Saunas have been used since ancient times up to the present days to take care and detox the skin. But all the saunas are not the same, there are different types depending on its operation mode, such as:

• Dry Sauna or Finnish sauna

It is the most popular, which has interior wood lining. This type of sauna uses electricity or firewood to heat the cabin, where the temperature reaches the 100ºC. It produces a deep transpiration of the skin. For this reason, the skin pores open to detox.

    How to take a Finnish Sauna?

1. A warm shower with soap, but you should go in the sauna with the dry skin to facilitate the detox of your skin.
2. You will need a towel to seat on the cabin bench without burn.
3. It is better to seat on the high bench firstly, and later you can seat on the lower bench. You should stay there from 10 to 25 minutes maximum.
4. When you get out of the cabin, you have to take a cold bath or shower.
5. You can relax for 15 minutes with a massage or a simple walk.
6. Then you can repeat it one more time.

• Steam Sauna Turkish bath or Hamman

It is a warm steam bath, where the temperature reaches about 55ºC and there are 100% humidity. There are 3 rooms, where the temperatures increase. The first one is about 25ºC, the second one is 40ºC and finally the third one is about 60ºC. It is matched with massages to improve its positive effects. Its benefits are similar than the Finnish Sauna, but if you are hypertensive or have any cardiovascular disease, you should be careful.

Let’s know the benefits of the sauna

The people used to use the sauna to relax, but it isn’t the most important benefit of the saunas. I mean there are a lot of positive effects for your health. For this reason, it was used by the ancient civilizations, such as Romans, and nowadays we still use them. So let’s know some of them:

• Blood circulation improves  because of the vasodilatation, which reduces the muscle and joint pain, for example the arthritis.
• According the JAMA Internal Medicine researches, the cardiovascular diseases can be reduces thanks to the use of the sauna.
• The increase in body temperature is a way to eliminate pathogens. For this reason, sauna can protect us from mild infections.
• The sport performance can be improved because of the sauna, which get better your aerobic performance.
• The sauna helps you to reduce the loss of muscle mass.
• It is a social place, where you meet many people in a cabin. So you have the opportunity to make stronger friendship.
• Sauna is a relaxing activity, which helps you to forget the stress, as well as it helps you to sleep better.
• You will also note that your breath improve because of the Sauna.
• It opens your skin pores and to detox it. So you will have a cleaner and nicer skin if you use the sauna.
• You can remove liquid because of its diuretic effect, which also reduce the cellulite.

As you can see, the sauna has a lot of great positive effect for your body and health. So if you have never used a sauna, you should try it to get all of theses benefits.

Sauna has also some myths, do you know them?

• Can you lose weight with the sauna?

Nowadays, people wants to be thin and slim without exercise and they go to the saunas. It is true that if you weighing, right after the sauna you lose weight, but it is just liquid because of the sweat. So you will recover the weight as soon as you drink.

• Does sauna increase longevity?

If you usually use sauna, it will improve  your quality of life. But it doesn’t mean that you will live more years.

How is our sauna in Beer Spa?

The most popular treatments of the wellness centers of Beer Spa is our Beer Spa Circuit, which is a complete beer treatment to get the beer properties on your skin. This amazing circuit has 3 steps:

1. You can take a beer bath in a wooden jacuzzi full of beer. In this way, your skin will absorb all the beer properties, while you relax drinking beer and take some snacks.
2. Then it’s time for our sauna, whose main objective is to open the pores of your skin so that the beer nutrients can penetrate the skin easier. For this reason, our sauna is similar as the Finnish Sauna, but the temperatures are lower because we just want to open the skin pores of our customers without sweat. In this way, you take advantage of the most of the properties of beer, which they get off the beer bath.
3. Finally, you can relax on a barley bed, while the beer properties take effect in your body.

When you end your Beer Spa Circuit, you can book our beauty treatments or special massage. All the cosmetic products, which are used, they have been made especially for us with hop and barley essences.

In conclusion, saunas are ancient treatments, which we preserve nowadays because of the fantastic benefits of the sauna. Although it is generally used mainly for relaxation, the benefits of the sauna for health are much more. So don’t hesitate and try the sauna of our beer spa circuit, when you want.

Have you ever used a sauna? How did you feel? Please, share your experiences in a sauna with us. I will be glad to read them.

Inma Aragón