Rokua Health & Spa Hotel

A 135-room spa hotel inside Rokua, Finland’s first UNESCO Global Geopark, adjoining Rokua National Park — established in 1956, among the earliest of Finland’s national parks (the first were founded in 1938). Treatments include peat poultices, bog toner, and sauna peat sessions using local Finnish bog peat; the facility is referenced in Korhonen 2008 as one of Finland’s peat bath sites.

Rokua Health & Spa Hotel in Utajärvi, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland offers peat poultices, bog toner, sauna peat, and folklore treatments, part of its wellness and rehabilitation program.

Peat from Finland is mainly sphagnum peat (raised bog) and carex peat (fen). Treatments like these are sometimes called peat poultices and sauna peat treatment, most often explored for joint inflammation (osteoarthritis, rheumatic conditions), muscle pain and tension, wound healing impairment, and dry skin (xerosis). See our evidence library for the studies.