Your Guide To Infrared Saunas

Are you thinking of buying a sauna? The sauna is an integral part of Finnish and Swedish culture. Most homes in this part of the world have a sauna and most people use the sauna several times a week.

A relatively new type of sauna has emerged in recent years. Unlike traditional saunas that use wood or electric stoves to heat them, this new sauna uses infrared heaters. In traditional saunas the heater heats the air of the sauna but infrared heaters only heat the people and objects – not the air.

Because the air is not heated, infrared heaters can be used anywhere – even outdoors – and still have a heating effect on human bodies. They are used in sauna enclosures simply for the atmosphere – people are used to going into saunas and may be more comfortable in an enclosure than in an open space.

Infrared is actually a frequency band of light that is invisible to the human eye. The heat from infrared is sometimes called Infrared Radiation (IR) – very different from Ultraviolet Radiation that can cause sunburn or Atomic radiation from nuclear weapons. Most of the heat that warms the earth is IR from the sun, and the earth and even the human body gives off IR.

Proponents of infrared saunas say that they have even more therapeutic properties than traditional saunas Next Page. .