Southern Style

Stylish Sauna Essentials

Home saunas have never been more popular—or more chic

A sauna outside

Photo: Kohler


Healing Property

Scads of new freestanding outdoor sauna options have made the wellness trend of shvitzing at home even easier to embrace. This especially handsome Kohler model comes clad in either Douglas fir or gray spruce, and three sizes accommodate up to six people. A triple-insulated roof and mineral wool–insulated walls retain heat as you steam amid a Scandinavian spruce interior ($30,600–$38,700, installation available; kohler.com).


Bath robes and slippers

Photo: KATE SEARS

• Soft Touch: Cozy up after a steam with these subtly striped and super-absorbent, lightweight robes and towels by Home & Loft, all of which get handwoven in Turkey and become softer with every wash ($58–$154; homeandloft.com).

• Happy Feet: Shuffle through the yard and back in plush, adjustable Weezie slippers. Bonus: You can have a monogram embroidered on them ($48; $63 if embroidered; weezietowels.com).

• Get Buff: Slip a Japanese tawashi body brush made from natural hemp fiber from Wentworth into your robe pocket and treat yourself to an invigorating scrub mid-steam ($22; shopwentworth.com).


Bath products

Photo: KATE SEARS

• Making Scents: After a good sweat, have a soak in a bath drawn with Susanne Kaufmann’s mix of such essential oils as ylang-ylang and lavender ($80; susannekaufmann.com).

• Pure Bliss: Scrub-a-dub with a bar of ultragentle, unscented soap made from whole milk by Santa Maria Novella, a Florence, Italy, apothecary outfit founded in 1221 ($20; gardenheir.com).

• Layer Up: The woodsy, lemony aroma of the Japanese hinoki cypress infuses this body oil by Wonder Valley made from olive oil, squalene, and sea buckthorn, a recipe that replenishes the skin’s natural barrier ($85; huckberry.com).

• Skin Shield: Scarlett Johannson’s the Outset crafts its balm from ten oils that bring intense moisture to parched lips, hands, elbows, you name it, in a totable tin ($38; theoutset.com).

• Easy Does It: Even sensitive bathers will love Vertly’s bath salts. The ingredients—calming calendula, muscle-relaxing magnesium, and nourishing oatmeal, to name a few—go easy on all skin types ($55; credobeauty.com).

• Hair Flair : Smooth your tresses postsauna with a handmade Italian acetate comb from the Atlanta company Machete ($42; shopmachete.com).


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Haskell Harris is the founding style director at Garden & Gun. She joined the title in 2008 and covers all things design-focused for the magazine. The House Romantic: Curating Memorable Interiors for a Meaningful Life is her first book. Follow @haskellharris on Instagram.