The Turkish Bath
After a day of sport in the mountains, the turkish bath is effective for relieving muscle tension, tone the body, get a deep cleansing of the skin, but also a useful tool to combat stress, rheumatic pains, insomnia and inflammation respiratory tract.
This is a treatment that takes place in a room where the relative humidity is 100%, forming a mist on the temperature stratification, from 20/25 ° C at floor level up to 40/50 ° C at the head.
The sweating is less intense than in a very hot and dry like a sauna, but as the stay is longer, the end result often is that the amount of perspiration and sweat more.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Arabs brought the cultira heated baths of Roman spa baths building called "hammam" (which translated from Arabic means "heat"), smaller and with a bathing easier than the traditional Roman baths.
Roman baths in fact, after the exercise is dipped in tepidarium, then in calidarium and end in laconicum, the final bath warmer, heated with dry air at high temperature. Then after cleaning the body and invigorating massage, you reimmergeva for one last swim in frigidarium.
In Arab tradition, the cycle was shortened. The hammam is consists of three areas.In the first you wash with very hot water (Harari) and then switch to the second where there's warm atmosphere and finally the last which is cool. As in the Roman tradition, it always starts from the room warmer. At the end of the cycle is optional massage.
To maximize the benefits of turkish bath, we recommend the following procedure:
- Revenue in the turkish bath and choose a relaxing and comfortable.
- The stay should not exceed 20 minutes. Warning: If you pulsate the temples is the time to leave, even before the time fixed!
- Exit and take a cold shower.
- Comes in the turkish bath for another 15 minutes.
- Take a cold shower or better yet completely immerse for half a minute into the pan of cold water.
- Asciugatevi calmly riabituare for the body temperature.
- Relax on a chaise or a long bed for about twenty minutes.
- Reinstatement of liquids with the sweating, drinking water or fruit juice.
The beneficial effects of the turkish bath will be visible during the terminal relaxation, your skin appear more supple and radiant.If you want to give a touch more to your "hammam", we can advise you to apply on the body still wet of essential oils or a good moisturizing cream.
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