From rural wellness retreats to high-end swanky spas, it seems everyone is hopping on the sauna trend right now. Hot on the heels of the ice-bath craze, we appear to have gone full circle from Baltic to balmy, with all the cool girls raving about the sweat session's ability to relieve stress, reduce aches and pains and impart a dewy glow to the skin, among other benefits.
Never ones to overlook a legitimate benefit, the noise around saunas has piqued our interest. After all, we've been using saunas for hundreds of years, so there must be something in it - and the history of these wooden sweat rooms is truly fascinating.
