It's no secret that the Russian bath is very beneficial for health and wellness. In this article we give some recommendation to those who often go to the bath, and for those who are just going to do it.
On entering the bath, cover the floor with leaves, grass or flowers. Broom in the bath can be either of birch, oak or eucalyptus branches. There is one very good advice: before taking a steam bath apply honey and salt on your skin as it quickly identifies sweat.
The quicker sweat outputs out of the body, the quicker the residue leaves the body. Healing properties of honey are well known, a special case of a therapeutic effect of honey is a beneficial effect on the skin.
Bath will be more useful to your body if when taking it, you'll use the contrast of temperatures. People used to jump into a snowdrift, or plunged into the ice hole, but nowadays it is enough to simply pour over a bucket of cold water.
If you are not prepared for extreme changes in temperatures, we recommend you to make a "snow massage" - it will give the effect of tempering at not such a strong temperature differences, as in the case of the snowdrift or ice hole.
To women taking a bath as a tempering procedure one can recommend massaging the skin with small pieces of ice. It can be as ordinary ice as ice consisting of frozen juice or tea.
