Steam Room
These are sometimes referred to as a Turkish bath. Like saunas they were used years ago, firstly by the Turks and Romans. Originally referred to as Roman baths, they were found in large rooms that held a number of baths varying in temperature. Here people met socially, rather like the sauna in Finland.
Nowadays you will find either a steam room or steam bath. The room like a sauna will hold a number of people depending on its size; the Steam bath is an individual treatment. The heat of a steam bath is wet as opposed to the dryness of the sauna. The humidity of a steam bath is high; therefore the perspiration excreted by the bather will trickle down the body rather than evaporate off as in the sauna. As the sauna these treatments operate at a fairly high temperature rest must be taken afterwards to help the body temperature return to normal.
When would one prefer an individual bath to a steam room?
The individual bath is a private treatment, it also leaves the head free, therefore if one does not breathe comfortably in the steam, and this is the answer.
How would I choose between a steam room and a sauna?
it is personal preference. If you are not sure you need to try each one deciding which feel most comfortable in.
