The sauna has been treasured by man since time immemorial, and is still treasured today.  Let’s explore the reasons why saunas continue to have such a strong presence.

A sauna is a small room or dwelling specially designed for bathers to experience wet or dry heat sessions.A bather, or group of bathers, can gather inside of a sauna to experience temperatures as high as 80 degrees Celcius or more. The opening of the pores and sweating make it possible for impurities to easily be removed from the body. In fact, the sauna’s popularity can be attributed to its many health benefits such as stress reduction, detoxification of the body, an improved immune system and other positive changes.

The word sauna simply means a traditional Finnish bath. In ancient times, saunas were small dwellings dug in the bottom of hills and slopes to keep people warm in winter. Stones were heated to very high temperatures and water was poured over them in order to create heat and moisture in the form of steam.The heat would be so strong that often people would undress when this was done.

As time passed, the home sauna evolved and began to feature a metal woodstove along with a chimney. Although the temperature was generally set somewhere between 70 and 80 °C, a traditional Finnish sauna could sometimes get as hot as 90 °C. Spraying water onto the hot rocks helped perfect this experience by adding a soft steam.

Historically, the Finns used a vihta, a bundle of birch branches with small fresh leaves. They would bind the branches together and use it to gently swat themselves and other bathers. The vihta was used by bathers to gently swipe the skin in order to stimulate the pores, enhance cell production and improve blood circulation. Another benefit of the vihta was that it gave off a very pleasant scent that stimulated relaxation in the same manner that many of today’s aromatherapy products work. In fact, the vihta is still used by some individuals in the sauna.

Saunas relieve stress in two ways. Not only do they help you relax from simply spending time relaxing within, but they also help your body relax physically. When the sauna heats your skin, it helps to detoxify your body by making it sweat out more harmful toxins than you would have without its aid. Removing these chemicals helps your body fight stress and feel healthier

The opening of the pores also makes it easier to remove toxins from the body. Toxins travel through your sweat glands and are released with your perspiration. As noted earlier, a sauna creates a high amount of perspiration and therefore is excellent for detoxification

The Finns keep the rich history of the sauna alive today by making it a part of their daily ritual. In Finland, saunas are considered to be a natural and effective way of refreshing both the mind and spirit. The sauna was and continues to be an essential aspect of daily life. Families in Finland traditionally bathed together in the sauna at home. It is interesting to note that Finnish women used to give birth in the sauna.
As more and more Finns moved to other countries, their customs moved with them, including the sauna. Cultures all over the world now enjoy the pleasure of the sauna. Today, many modern saunas have been improved further, from electric saunas to infrared saunas. The popularity of the sauna has only increased, and people from all over the globe now recognize and enjoy the benefits of the sauna.

What are reed oil diffusers? For one thing reed oil diffusers belong to the aromatherapy and decor range of products. The reed oil diffusers are actually products used in aromatherapy as well as for aesthetic purposes. They consist of three parts: the sticks or reeds, the essential oils and the bottles.

How do reed oil diffusers work and why are they so popular? Among the aromatherapy products, reed oil diffusers are very widely used as they are able to spread the scent of the fragrant oils into the air, enabling you to benefit from their healing or relaxing properties. One of the reasons, a very important one actually, why reed oil diffusers are so popular is that they do not need fire to work properly. Heating the oil is not necessary; therefore the danger of something catching fire is practically inexistent.

Then, how do reed oil diffusers work, you might ask. Well, the principle of reed oil diffusers is very simple. Take a bunch of reed difusers and put them in a container in which you have poured some fragrant oil. The oil will natirally come up the channels of the reed diffusers and will evaporate into the air. Every two days you should turn the reeds upside down for the oil to be able to circulate upwards and enable the evaporation process.

You might wonder what kind of reeds, oils and containers are the best for the proper functioning of the “installation”. For this we can say that you should be careful that the reeds you buy are made of rattan rather than bamboo, that the oils not contain alcohol or dypropilene glycol, and that the containers, whether bottles, jars or vases, be made of glass or ceramic.

Why are these aspects of reed oil diffusers so important? For your reed oil diffusers to give their best and last long enough, it is necessary that you choose these materials. First, the reeds should be made of rattan as rattan has channels from one end to the other, making it easy for the oils to move upwards, whereas bamboo has nodes inside the channels which impede on the oil circulation, making the evaporation process difficult.

Then the oils you are going to use should not only satisfy your smell, but also the purpose for which they were meant. That is in reed oil diffusers the oils should not contain alcohol which is flammable, or dypropilene glycol which is thick and does not allow the oil to move very easily. Finally, the container should be ideally made of glass or ceramic. Plastic reed oil diffusers containers are not appropriate as their content is not made to resist these oils if they are used more than moderately.