Vihta pleasure
Use vihta (vasta)! Many bathers use vihta to improve the feeling of sauna. Vihta is a small whisk made of birch, oak, cedar or other leafy trees’ boughs. It is used in a way to gently beat the body in sauna. This has a relaxing effect on the muscles and stimulates the feel of the löyly. It improves your blood circulation. This is an enjoyable sensation.
Vihtas made of birch are best to be prepared when leafs are softest and when the trees are rich in leafs, during a late spring or early summer. Many sauna bathers say that the best is to cut the branches of the trees in the June, just before the Midsummer’s day. Such a prepared vihtas can be frozen up and kept in plastic bags or hanged up and dried, and in this way saved for the winter. Only the whisks of eucalyptus boughs can be made and used throughout the whole year.
It is important to soften leafs of the vihta before you use it. Thus, submerse it in a hot water for a few minutes, before you use it.
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