Skincare brand Haeckels has built a traditional wood-burning sauna on the sands of Margate beach, in a bid to "reacquaint the community" with the health-giving properties of their local waters.
Located in the town of Margate on Britain's southeast coast, the bathing machine is constructed from traditional sauna wood planks, with oak wheels attached to a steel frame.
It features a waxed cloth awning that can be retracted and steps that double up as a door and can be pulled up to make the bathing machine secure.

The creators wanted to use materials that were as close as possible to those that would have been used in the Victorian era for the original bathing machines, which offered a space for women to change clothes on the beach.
Housed inside the bathing machine is a wood-burning sauna, offering visitors a place to "sweat out the stresses of the day" before rinsing off in the "seaweed-rich" waters just metres away.
As Haeckels founder Dom Bridges told Dezeen, the initial inspiration for the bathing machine was born from one of his trips to the Blue Lagoon in Iceland.
"I was always amazed by the concept of people bathing in hot water but surrounded by sub-zero temperatures," he explained.
After finding out about Margate's history of sea bathing, and the Victorian machines that were originally used for this, Bridges decided to bring an updated version of these "icons of that era" back to Margate's main sands.
He hopes the ba...