According to the folk calendar, October 26 (October 13, old style) is Agathon's day. A day of master wisdom, order at home and preparation for winter. People said: "The owner considers good things for Agathon. " Believe it's time to check the supplies again and make sure the house is ready for the cold weather. Agathonov's day was traditionally a bathhouse in Ross. "It warms, it soars, it whips, it controls, it makes a brave young man! ", people said about the bath house. True, before taking a steam bath, it was necessary to arrange the bathhouse itself and the bathroom accessories. As a rule, firewood from birch wood and various brooms were brought to the bath house for Agathon. They could replace the floorboards, install basswood shelves, and put felt and hay on the floor. Fragrant herbs were placed on the shelves and covered with a linen towel - this was believed to enhance the healing properties of the herbs. Cleaning and adjusting bathroom equipment. In addition to ordinary wooden ladles, the bath house necessarily had other containers for washing. For example, chics are wooden tubs for washing. They can be with or without handles. Small one-handed buckets were used as a pouring ladle for scooping water from a pit or log. Larger two-handed bowls were used for washing the head and body or infusing aromatic herbs. They also used a tub - a low wooden bucket with two handles - "ears". The bath was used instead of a basin; They were also washed out of it after a steam room or laundry. They kept in the bathhouse a separate wooden container, in which brooms were sown ("boiled") in hot water - a steamer. The washcloths have been renewed. You can make them from bast - from the inner layer of the linden bark. Before use, the bast sponge is steamed in boiling water for 10 minutes and then soaked in ice water. They also made a soap potion. It could have been a bull from the ashes. It was dissolved in cold water, boiled and steamed in the oven. Or they boiled chametz soils. It cleaned the skin surface well. Brooms are also "brewed" in it. Oats were mixed with decoctions and infusions of linden, wormwood, rosemary, chamomile and hops.

According to the folk calendar, October 26 (October 13, old style) is Agathon's day. A day of master wisdom, order at home and preparation for winter. People said: "The owner considers good things for Agathon. " Believe it's time to check the supplies again and make sure the house is ready for the cold weather. Agathonov's day was traditionally a bathhouse in Ross. "It warms, it soars, it whips, it controls, it makes a brave young man! ", people said about the bath house. True, before taking a steam bath, it was necessary to arrange the bathhouse itself and the bathroom accessories. As a rule, firewood from birch wood and various brooms were brought to the bath house for Agathon. They could replace the floorboards, install basswood shelves, and put felt and hay on the floor. Fragrant herbs were placed on the shelves and covered with a linen towel - this was believed to enhance the healing properties of the herbs. Cleaning and adjusting bathroom equipment. In addition to ordinary wooden ladles, the bath house necessarily had other containers for washing. For example, chics are wooden tubs for washing. They can be with or without handles. Small one-handed buckets were used as a pouring ladle for scooping water from a pit or log. Larger two-handed bowls were used for washing the head and body or infusing aromatic herbs. They also used a tub - a low wooden bucket with two handles - "ears". The bath was used instead of a basin; They were also washed out of it after a steam room or laundry. They kept in the bathhouse a separate wooden container, in which brooms were sown ("boiled") in hot water - a steamer. The washcloths have been renewed. You can make them from bast - from the inner layer of the linden bark. Before use, the bast sponge is steamed in boiling water for 10 minutes and then soaked in ice water. They also made a soap potion. It could have been a bull from the ashes. It was dissolved in cold water, boiled and steamed in the oven. Or they boiled chametz soils. It cleaned the skin surface well. Brooms are also "brewed" in it. Oats were mixed with decoctions and infusions of linden, wormwood, rosemary, chamomile and hops.