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Irish sweathouses (Irish: teach allais) are a type of traditional sauna found on the island of Ireland. In the Irish language they are called teach allais, which translates as 'house of sweat'. [1] They are built using stone and are found in rural areas, particularly in the northwest region of Connacht. They were first recorded in 1796 by ...
A heat storage stove does not give up much heat in the sauna before bathing since the stone compartment has an insulated lid. When the sauna bath is started and the löyly shutter opened a soft warmth flow into the otherwise relatively cold (60 °C; 140 °F) sauna. This heat is soft and clean because, thanks to combustion, the stove stones glow ...
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The Russian banya is the closest relative of the Finnish sauna. In modern Russian, a sauna is often called a "Finnish banya", though possibly only to distinguish it from other ethnic high-temperature bathing facilities such as Turkish baths referred to as "Turkish banya". Sauna, with its ancient history amongst Nordic and Uralic peoples, is a ...
Bathing is the immersion of the body in a fluid (usually water), an aqueous solution, air (usually heated), or vapour. The main article for this category is Bathing . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bathing .
Afterwards bathers walk into the gender-segregated bathhouse area (children of both genders below seven years of age are free to intermingle) and take a shower. Then, one should wear the jjimjilbang clothes (usually a T-shirt and shorts, color-coordinated according to gender), which are received with the locker key.