Nobody uses a towel.. It's only a small towel/cloth that is just big enough for you to sit on. Called "saunanalunen" or "pefletti"

Who uses a towel in Sauna???

@playnochat

9 ай бұрын

He means laudeliina in public sauna. I don't think there are translation for it in English.

@spoonzor1

5 ай бұрын

@@playnochat and to be a gatekeeper if someone wants to use a towel is crazy

Usually people go to sauna naked just as they take a shower naked before and after. For hygienic reasons some saunas might forbid wearing swimsuits in shower and sauna. Men and women have separate public saunas just as they have separate dressing rooms and showers. Small children can go to men's or women's site depending on an adult's gender they are with. When families go to a private sauna, usually they go together. E.g. in some student house parties it might occur, that men and women go to sauna together and nude, if everyone agrees to that. Saves the bother of trying to schedule some shifts. Wrapping a towel around is of course allowed, but people might not be that fussy. At the summer cottage by the lake or sea, skinny-dipping while going to sauna isn't that uncommon. Cant's say that I recall seeing a streaker in a Finnish football match.

@skebaba918

9 ай бұрын

I'm sure there are some mixed-sex public saunas too, but it's generally mentioned specifically if so.

@mikkorenvall428

7 ай бұрын

And one should not make noise in a sauna, as it's still considered as a holy place. Back in the pre-christian times Sauna was considered as a temple where you speak with the spirits and get purified inside and outside. And it's still in the culture that one should behave at ones best in a sauna. Like one don't make noise in a church. Taking a sauna bath is a dignified ceremony.

While we Finns are usually naked in sauna, we totally understand when someone, especially foreigner, comes with a towel wrapped around. Also friend might ask if guests want to go genders separate or everyone together. We are different. Some Finns are also shy and especially teenagers might want to go alone apart from the rest of the family. At public swimming pools it's forbidden to go to the sauna with your swimming suit because chlorine from the water evaporates in sauna and becomes poisonous. In sauna the hottest place is top bench closest to stones. When you throw water, hot air circulates and ends back to where the stones are. Good sauna has moisture and air. Electric saunas are often too dry. If you can get to wood burning sauna, do it. They are the best.

@9Misaki3

8 ай бұрын

I don't think the reason why swimsuits are forbidden in the swimming pool saunas is the chlorine being poisonous (not really sure if it's even true) but more because you will sweat in the sauna and all of that sweat and dirt will get stuck to your swimsuit which will be transferred to the pool. Also swimsuits are pretty expensive so using swimsuit that has rubber on it in a hot place like sauna will make it more likely to break so not really a good idea.

@XtreeM_FaiL

8 ай бұрын

No swimtrunks in a sauna is a hygiene thing. 99%+ public swimming halls use ozone, not chlorine.

0:14 , that was a good way to say the word "sauna." 😃I wish I could go to a sauna everyday, I love going to one, but because of living arrangements of mine it can only be used once a week. In that sense it's an highlight of the week to get to go there and relax.

Sauna is like church to us Fins. Back in the day you were born in sauna and died in sauna.

Well, we don't normally take the towel with into the sauna and we have sauna times (at least i have) where everyone goes together in to the sauna, men and women. It is so natural that in my inner circle we don't go only women, only men. Though if you have people there who are modest like that, then of course they can go with their own sex and then thd others go after etc. It depends on who you are with..

@annina134

10 ай бұрын

Oh and yes, we use towels etc to sit on but not around us.

The thing about the towel is that you dont take a towel to wrap yourself in but its for sitting on, not for covering yourself. Some public saunas (saunas meant for tourists) do require you to cover yourself but regular finns go to their personal saunas with their dick and balls out. You can spot a touristy sauna immidietly when you go there and everyone is coverd up with a towel or in their swimsuit

It is not all about cold weather, we usually go more sauna in the summer when it's hot out there, specially when you are in summer gotage you usually have sauna every day you are there, Though it is really nice if you had long cold day out in the Winter to have good hot sauna and maybe if there is just rained powder snow just rolling in to it and back to sauna.. that usually takes bit of encouragement from the bottle xD

You can wear a swinsuit for religious/cultural reasons, but nudity in sauna is not sexualized here. We go in as bare as the day we were born, enjoy the heat in peace, with very low conversation at best. Then you go and rinse out the sweat and either jump in a lake or snowdrift and go back in. Finns have mastered the art of not seeing nudity in sauna, so there's no reason for feelings of shame or embarrasment. Everyone is equal in sauna, there's no social classes or hierarchies to follow.

His advice for sauna is very good 😍

One of if not the best finnish movie/series is "tuntematon sotilas" i.e the unknown soldier. It follows a group of characters in a finnish machine gun brigade during the continuation war between the soviets and the finns. It's based on a book by the same name and it has two adaptations, a movie that came out in 1955 which has became a tradition to watch it every year at independence day. The other adaptation is the 2017 series which is basically the movie but in episodes. I would personally recommed watching the series as the movie is 3 hours long, but you of course can and should watch the movie too, but it could be difficult to make a reaction video to a 3 hour film. Thanks.

@dwaynesview

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for that suggestion, I will definitely watch the series. I think that's such an interesting plot. And I think I will learn a lot about Finnish history too :)

@RiasSenpaiTheWallet

8 ай бұрын

you forgot the 1985 one?

@Hanhis

8 ай бұрын

@@RiasSenpaiTheWallet Oh shi. Guess I did.

We have one in our house here in Sweden, and it is for sure a magical place! There is a before and after-effect that is amazing! You can feel like crap walking in, stressed from work and life itself, but after - life is beautiful! 🙂I use it as much as I can during autumn and winter.

🇫🇮 The sauna is an old invention. A stone age invention. Finns are used to saunas and it has been used, for example, for healing, and there they have talked with the residents of the village about problems, for example. Of sorrows. A person is completely cleansed in a sauna. And every country that has a sauna has a different sauna culture.

On public sauna you would not bring any food or drinks in, but if you are going to private sauna it is really common to have a drink for sauna. It is also quite common to have drinking games in sauna. I personally don't really drink at all unless I'm going to sauna. Also some do "grill/heat" sausages in sauna as you are there your self.

@SorbusAucubaria

9 ай бұрын

But worth noting that drinking alcohol makes you a bit more vulnerable for the heat and sometimes if you are drunk people don't recognize heat stroke or developing burns and as such it is a bit more dangerous. But yes, I think it is common to have beer or cider while in sauna and usually its advisable to put the bottles in the cool water bucket.. Mostly I'll have the drink while cooling myself, not inside sauna.

Same 'rules' apply in Sweden (for sauna). Only exception in my sauna is teenagers (any sex), thay can wear swim trunks/bikinis or whatever.

In private saunas, it's not uncommon to grill sausages in the open fire. Also, don't fart in the sauna, that upsets the sauna gnomes (saunatonttu)

I think this was really good video about sauna's. I think it was not said, but part of the sauna etiquette is that you ask others if it is ok to throw water on the stones (in Finnish: saako heittää löylyä). That way people can tell you no, if it is too hot for them and brace themselves for the biting steamwave. Also, it is ok to go sit in the lower bench, if you wish for gentler löyly. And some quiet talking is ok in a sauna as long as you are not loud and respect others.

@XtreeM_FaiL

8 ай бұрын

If you have the bucket and the sauna is too crowded, you either go away or throw more water.

We don't usually jump in to snow in the summer. And don't get scared, if you see people hitting themself with some birch whisks (bunch of birch branches), it's just a sauna thing. Good for your health

Finnish saunas can be extremely warm, we have quite a lot of the culture in Sweden too, but not as much as in Finland, but one thing I have noticed in Finland is that they often want them extremely hot.

@NightBlado

10 ай бұрын

I tend to think it is the other way around - the rest of the world keeps theirs cold =D

@XtreeM_FaiL

8 ай бұрын

Finns hate extremely hot saunas. That's why they throw löyly.

all natural is the best in sauna, most people dont wrap themselves with towel, they just sit on it so everything is showing really, i do lot swimming in swimming halls and its normal to be fully naked

Sauna is about bathing, nothing els! In swedish its calld Bastu, in Norweigan Bastue, both means bathing cottage, in old times at farms that cottage aimed for bathing and often altso for washing clotes! In old times, everyone on the farm bathed at Saturday, (Lördag in old swedish, means bathing day), becus Sunday was mandatory to be at church and one didnt want to smell of manure or swett! Its gone frome a mandatory thing to a SPA/relaxation thing.. and they didnt have our fancy cotton towels back in those days! Soo we keept that mindset to be naked.. its only bathing, one dont wear any clothes in a Sauna/Bastu/Bastue! Today one supose to sit on ones towel, then if one is shy, one can wrap a part of it over ones most private parts!

... and as a tourist in Sweden found out... don't take the cellphone into the sauna...

Ofc naken , same in Sweden..

Having drink in private sauna is ok but be careful of not getting drunk. Passing out in sauna is extremely dangerous and if you are in group its good idea to keep an eye out if someone is in such state that passing out is possible.

There's a movie that you definitely need to see. *Tuntematon Sotilas*. It's originally a book, and it's been filmed at least three times.

It should be pointed out that even in Sweden it is common to baste. In my city Kiruna, every new house has a sauna built in, and so in many older houses, newly built apartments are equipped with saunas, as well as larger saunas in the basement of the apartment buildings or built saunas in a separate building on the farms. Of course you are naked in the sauna, don't you bathe in a bathtub with your clothes on or shower with your clothes on? It is when you bathe that you really sweat and get rid of all the dirt on your body properly, all the dead skin on your body drains off. Afterwards, you feel much cleaner than you do after just taking a shower. Many people from other countries who have visited either Finland or Sweden and have tried saunas, have built saunas when they have returned home. I have seen on KZread where you show houses, some have had a sauna in the house and they have then ordered the sauna from Finland or Sweden. For everyone, they have appreciated how much cleaner you become and afterwards felt good for body and soul.

heck! we finns have more saunas than cars in finland! also since we have been kids like 1-3 years old we start to go to sauna! also we always get naked because its natural, kids with random men and women in same sauna is just normal! when i was kid i remember i was in sauna where both women and men were welcome, so i went in there and i was sitting in between 2 random.. and BEAUTIFUL females, as females usually is beautiful... but the fact that no matter who you are basically everyone can be in sauna together with anyone

Usually we go in the sauna totally naked. No towels, nothing. And if we are at home and going sauna with friends, men and woman can go together. Or at least in our friend group we always go together regardless of the gender. People usually respect each other in the sauna and you don't "check out" others in the sauna. And of course there are Finnish people who don't feel themself comfortable totally naked or with other gender in the sauna and if so, they can wear swimsuits or towel and/or go to the sauna alone, or just with same gender.

And there can be occasions when both sex are it the sauna all fully naked at least that is what i do with my friends

in finnish homes we don't bring a big towel into the sauna, we have specific small sauna towels that we can put under out butts so you don't have to clean the wooden benches so often.

I like that smoke sauna in Finland and jump to the lake ...

Late but i just have to make this clear! Its ok if u want to go to a public sauna and wear something, and also at friends or whatever. Its just that we respect each other in the sauna no matter what. People who says "you have to be nude in the sauna" is just gatekeeping and think they are cool or something silly and should really think a little bit and be more humble.

Of course you go naked in the sauna. It's abomination otherwise. And no freaking towels in sauna! What is this nonsense? Only things you take inside sauna is a whisk and a beer. One sex at a time applies to swimming hall saunas and other public saunas but not to private saunas. There everyone go together. And sometimes in public saunas too.

The later one at sauna pronouncing was perfect at the beging of the video.

There isn't just one type sauna.

Naked, naked? No, just naked. Don't put your hands in the air and do helicopter, just natural naked. If someone say that it's too hot, it is customary to cool down sauna by throwing water on the rocks.

When i served in Bosnia, we took naked sauna with swedish medic ladies. Just normal.

Hello, greetings from Finland, I have been told many times that sauna is a poor man's church. According to an old proverb, in the sauna you should behave as if you were in church, i.e. restrained and devout.

@TheObscureRambler

9 ай бұрын

It's logical - the Church is a place of 'washing away' of sins through confession, originally, the sauna is a place of physical purification, with plenty of old supersition and mysticism connected to the sauna as a place and a state. Women gave birth in there, so new life came into the world. Dead family were cleaned and housed in the sauna before burial rites. "Spells" were cast in there by both men and women.

He's totally wrong about not bringing drinks in sauna. Sauna and beer are totally linked together, and it's more than ok to drink beer in sauna. Some of us like to pour some beer on the stove too, it brings a nice roasty smell in sauna.

And heat the sauna with woods , so no electric ..

I one burned myself because I can't see shit without my glasses so I had them on and they had metal frame 🙈

I would say that you sweat the most around 75 - 80 degrees Celsius, if you dare try to get over 100, it feels painfully good.

Birthday Suit is thee most appropriate. You are welcome to wear a damp woollen hat. It will stop your brains boiling.

that's just outright wrong telling to NOT to drink (beer) in sauna... yes, it's sacred for us Finns but so is booze (honouring of Ukko)

we allways drink a beer in the sauna and vodka aswell and in Finland if you are couple friends we naked in the sauna no problem ladies and man 🥰🤣

must ask, what made you to start reacting things about Finland?

Yes, Sauna should be taken naked... and there *are* mixed saunas.

I do not understand why you would need a towel to cover yourself in the sauna. A pefletti is all I need.

I know what naked means but not what " oh, naked naked?" means? You can be naked or not naked, you can also be "almost naked" and if so you are not naked.

You should watch Tuntematon Sotilas (Unknown Soldier) one of the best war films out there.. there is several versions of it too, 1955 original version, 1985 the second one and latest of them is from 2017 they are all of course based on same Väinö Linna novel Tuntematon Sotilas from 1954.

Finnish dont use towel

Finns don't really care if you say "saw-na". We're not Italians or French 😂 I think it actually makes more sense to say "saw-na" if you're speaking English, because, well... English 😅

@XtreeM_FaiL

8 ай бұрын

Pronounce sauna in correct way is not hard for English speakers. They don't know what is the correct way to say wowels in the first place. Ice vs eyes. Actually they don't even care how things are written, like kernal... sorry colonel.

You cannot burn yourself by blowing your arm while in sauna... This guy is way out of his way with his "facts".