nti Täti wrote:I prefer shower.
By the way, I'm Finnish and I actually don't like sauna so much.
Go on, kill me. :P
But really, going to sauna every day would be horrible, it's too hot in there, makes breathing hard and that sweating: is that what you call becoming clean? In the summer it's a bit different, at our grandparent's summer cottage I could bath (=be in sauna) more often than at home: here I feel like it would be nice to go to sauna approximately once a month. We live in a bock of flats so we don't have own sauna, our family has the right to use the shared sauna all by ourselves once a week and there are twice a week "public"shifts for the women and men who live in this row of blocks of flats. Handy, and doesn't waste so much electricity, but I go to sauna only when it is our family's shift.
Well.. According to how I've understood this, there are two ways the sauna makes you cleaner:
Firstly, it's so hot in there that the bacteria can't make it alive, so you'll apparently happen to commit a mass murder of bacteria while in sauna.
Secondly, it makes your skin a lot softer for a shortish time. If you go to shower during that time, you get a lot more dirt away from your skin than you would if you didn't go to sauna first.
So, it kills the unhealthy stuff and also makes removing the rest of them that don't die in the heat a lot easier.
So, sauna is a good way to become cleaner :)
And you must also remember the believings of the old Finnish tribes. They believed sauna kinda makes your soul more pure. They found the kiuas quite a holy thing. The word "löyly" originally meant somekind of spirit or genie-like thing.
Just my two eurocents.
If I have to stay away home I'll start to miss my sauna 
