Beauty Parlour Heat Treatment

A while ago, I had a slimming treatment at a beauty clinic. One part of the treatment is actually two parts, in my opinion. The first step is pretty straightforward, but it's actually the most important part: the sauna. It's not your typical sauna, though. It's actually an infrared cabin. It's a big, wooden sauna with a door in the middle and room for four people. There are windows at head-level in the door and on both sides. When I got in, I sat in one of the corners. There are infrared emitters placed on the back wall all the way along it. They're rectangular, over half a meter tall, with a small protective grid in front, an aluminum concave mirror in the background with front black bars that generate the heat. I had two of them at the back and two at the front, right under the window. They worked like infrared heaters, emitting heat in the form of infrared waves and penetrating deeply into the skin. I've tried this type of sauna before and wasn't a big fan, but my opinion has changed. At other times, they set the temperature inside and left the infrared lights on for quite a while before letting me in. Once the programmed temperature was reached, the emitters turned off until it was time to heat the air again. While they were off, it wasn't too warm because these saunas can't reach the highest temperatures of the conventional ones, and it was only a dry half-sauna. But then they changed the way they use it. Then the temperature was at its maximum, 60°C, and the heating engineers never go off. The heat was pretty intense and constant for the 20 or 30 minutes that the session lasts. It was a bit of an effort for me to hold on the whole time, and sometimes I'd had to leave and refresh myself a little. In less than five minutes I started sweating and I didn't stop for a second, while the heat was punching me from ahead and behind. By the time I finished, I was soaked, exhausted and my breathing was accelerated. I think my ability to tolerate the heat was down, but then, after leaving the sauna, I didn't want to be exposed to any more heat.

And this is the key moment, the end of the treatment. Once I was outside they applied a cream to me in the back and legs and asked me to lye down in a stretcher that has an already warmed sauna blanket. I lied on back in a transparent plastic placed, next they applied the cream on my abdomen and the rest of the legs. Then they locked up me in the plastic, from my feet to the neck, and they surrounded me with the electric blanket, picking up the half that was out of the stretched and throwing it on me, surrounding and enclosing me. It was big, thick and heavy, about 5 cm., and it covered me from the neck to the ankles. The heat immediately surrounded me by all sides. In order to increase the effect, or to torture the clients, they placed above doubled two heavy wool blankets that stick the sauna blanket to my body and they did not allow to escape a drop of heat. In addition they covered the feet, that were the only thing that was out to the air below the chin. You can imagine that were less than two minutes since I had left the sauna until I was on the stretcher, so my body didn't take in reacting and returns to intensely sweat. According to the day they put me more or less heat, from 30-35ºC to 40ºC, they said. In any case it is distressing to think that I had to remain there, prisoner, during half an hour and, although the temperature didn't increase, I was more and more and more hot. The minutes were become eternal to me and every time I was more anxious to escape. It was an authentic punishment, a torture that becomes hardened as time passes. At the beginning I held well and I enjoyed it, but since sauna was continuously to full power I came tired to the blanket and to the limit of my resistance, it turns it into a death torture which I did not want to prolong. At the end of the session, I was begging that they release me.