Traditional Vs Infrared Sauna
Traditional Saunas have been in use by many cultures for many centuries but infrared technology was development in the 1960’s. Traditional saunas can use a wide range of heaters to get the temperature up to around 200 degrees. These heaters include an electrical heater a gas heater and wood burning heaters, these traditional heaters have one thing in common they all warm the air, the warm air then heats up the sauna room and the sauna bathers. While this method has worked fine for many years the time for the sauna to heat up was inconvenient and the amount of energy needed to heat the entire room up to the 200 degrees necessary to achieve a good session was wasteful by today’s standards.
Infrared saunas work on the principle of radiant heat or infrared waves. The sun produces infrared energy you can feel like on a cool day when you are in the sun it feel warm yet the air is cool this is actually infrared or radiant heat. The sunlight also carries with it some harmful radiant energy in the form of ultraviolet light fortunately infrared saunas heaters do not produce damaging ultraviolet waves. Today’s infrared saunas produce infrared wave lengths very close to the same wavelengths that we ourselves produce.
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