Infrared Sauna FAQs

What is an infrared sauna?

Infrared saunas may appear to be similar to traditional saunas from the outside. An infrared sauna is a wooden box equipped with infrared heaters that provide benefits such as healing and detoxifying the body and boosting your mood. Traditional saunas utilize steam or dry heat to warm the room, but infrared saunas use heat lamps to raise your body temperature directly. Infrared saunas heat your body temperature directly as opposed to heating the air around you and warming your temperature. This makes infrared saunas more energy-efficient than traditional versions.

How does an infrared sauna work?

Infrared saunas may also be referred to as infrared theory or Waon therapy. They use infrared heaters that emit infrared light. This radiant heat is absorbed by the surface of your skin. Raising your body temperature can provide multiple health and wellness benefits.

How often should you use an infrared sauna?

How often you should use your infrared sauna depends on how healthy you are and your tolerance level. The experts recommend using your sauna three or four days each week. You can opt for every other day, which makes it easy to keep track of your time.

How do I use an infrared sauna?

Start by warming up the sauna to your preferred temperature. You should drink a glass of water before you enter the sauna and bring some with you as well. Bring a towel into the sauna because you’ll be sweating a lot. It’s preferred to not wear clothing, but that isn’t always possible. Next, spend your time relaxing while you enjoy the benefits.

How safe is infrared heat?

Infrared heat is completely safe. The human body can be exposed to infrared heat for hours without the risk of burning. Infrared heat is natural. The sun produces infrared heat, but it also contains harmful UV rays. That makes infrared heat safer than being exposed to direct sunlight.

What’s the difference between infrared saunas and traditional saunas?

Infrared heat is gentle and feels like lying in the sun on a warm day. Traditional saunas operate at extremely high temperatures, while infrared saunas operate at more comfortable ones. Traditional saunas heat the area as opposed to infrared saunas, which heat the body directly. It can become difficult to breathe and relax in an unbearably hot conventional sauna. Infrared saunas have been found to be seven times more effective than traditional saunas when it comes to their detoxifying properties.

Can kids use infrared saunas?

Yes, but with restrictions. Your child’s core body temperature rises much faster than that of an adult body. This happens because of a higher metabolic rate per body mass as well as limited circulatory adaptation to increased cardiac demands as well as the inability to regulate body temperature through sweat. If your child uses your infrared sauna, it’s recommended that you use it with them. Operate your sauna at a lower temperature, and your kids should not use it for more than 15 minutes at any given time.