alt Hacker NewsHumidity is the key, Finnish style sauna is low humidity+ high temperature (85-115C is OK i think), while Russian banya-style is low temperature (60-80C with high humidity). Both of them produce about the same load on a human
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gchamonlive • today at 3:24 PM
That's interesting. I don't have much the habit of doing sauna, as you can likely tell, so I might have tried only high humidity saunas. I'll give it a try one day with low humidity if I find one.
Right, and Turkish-style hammam is 50C at 100% humidity. It's the only one I cannot stand.