Sauna Background

A sauna room is designed to be filled with heat in some fashion, so that the users inside of saunas will experience the numerous benefits of that heat. Benefits of a sauna include potential weight loss, reduced pain from certain afflictions, and cleansed skin. Saunas are not new inventions, though the design of a sauna room has improved with greater technology.

Infrared Sauna

An infrared sauna is a sauna that uses infrared lights to heat up the body directly, instead of heating up the air around the body. Infrared sauna benefits include the fact that it is easier to clean up, because there is no steam, and the fact that in many ways an infrared sauna will actually create a form of heat in the body which is less likely to cause complications.

Far Infrared Sauna

Far infrared saunas are actually often just infrared saunas. Infrared saunas use infrared lamps projecting light from the far end of the infrared spectrum to heat up the bodies of users directly. Thus, a far infrared sauna is simply a sauna that uses lamps projecting light in that far end of the infrared spectrum. A far infrared sauna is effective because far infrared light is absorbed as heat.

Sauna Suit

A sauna suit is a specialized suit designed to keep the heat of a person captured within the sauna suit. Sauna suits can assist individuals with their weight loss programs, because the heat generated when such individuals work out within a sauna suit will be kept close their bodies, thus causing their bodies to burn more energy in producing sweat.

Sauna Belt

A sauna belt, such as the Sauna Twin, is a belt-like device which is designed to wrap around some portion of the body. A sauna belt will then apply heat to that part of the body in order to assist the user with losing weight from that portion of his or her body. The efficacy of sauna belts such as the Sauna Twin is somewhat in doubt based on research.

Sauna Heater

A sauna heater is the specific device which provides the heat necessary for the functioning of a sauna. Sauna heaters can come in a number of different forms, including steam heaters, which might heat up rocks such that water can be poured over those rocks to create steam, or infrared sauna heaters which use infrared light to provide heat.

Facial Sauna
A facial sauna is a device designed to provide a user with the effects of a sauna, but only on his or her face. Facial saunas are small devices which heat water into steam, funneling that water up into an ergonomic mask which a user can put around his or her face, so as to get the cleansing benefits of the facial sauna on his or her facial skin.

Portable Sauna

A portable sauna is a particular version of a sauna designed to be small and portable. Portable saunas are generally designed to be small enclosed areas of an insulating material. The user can sit inside his or her portable sauna, and can then hook it up to a sauna heater to fill the enclosed area with heat and enjoy the effects of a sauna.

Portable Infrared Sauna

Infrared saunas can come in a portable infrared sauna form, just as conventional saunas can. A portable infrared sauna is a portable sauna, meaning that it is likely a design of an insulating material in which a user can sit. These portable infrared saunas use infrared lights to generate the heat within the insulating material, however.

Home Sauna

If an individual wants the advantages of a sauna, but doesn't want to have to go to another location, then he or she may consider installing a home sauna in his or her home. Home saunas will either be rooms in the house, or they will be outdoor saunas, unconnected to the house. A kit for building a home sauna is often the best way to go about obtaining a home sauna.

Benefits of Sauna

The benefits of sauna cleansing that are generally accepted include assistance for weight loss, cleansing of the body, and the reduction of certain painful or uncomfortable symptoms in some disorders. Many individuals claim that there are other sauna benefits, however, that have not yet been conclusively proven.

Steam Sauna

A steam sauna is a sauna which uses steam to provide the heat to its users. A steam sauna is also sometimes known as a wet sauna. A steam sauna can also be found in a portable steam sauna form, which will usually come with the enclosed area of insulating material, along with a device to turn water into steam to provide heat for the portable steam sauna.

Steam Sauna vs. Dry Sauna

A steam sauna uses steam to provide its heat, while a dry sauna is designed to keep the humidity of the air within the dry sauna at a significantly lower level. A dry sauna, such as the Finnish sauna, might involve the use of heated rocks alone to generate the heat in the sauna. Each type of sauna, either a steam sauna or a dry sauna, has certain advantages.

Sauna Bath

A sauna bath might refer to one particular stint within a sauna, or it might refer to a bathroom specifically designed to function as a sauna as well. A sauna shower, which is one form of this latter type of sauna bath, is a shower which either might have no shower head, instead having a steam dispenser, or which might be able to convert into a steam sauna for use in the sauna bath.

Sauna Kits

Sauna kits are packages including all the pieces and parts necessary to assemble a sauna, usually an outdoor sauna. Sauna kits generally include material for walls, the door, the floor, the ceiling, and a heater for the sauna. They do not often include sauna accessories, such as towel racks, clocks, or lights, though these sauna accessories can certainly be obtained separately.

Finnish Sauna

A Finnish Sauna is the particular variety of sauna that is commonly found in Finland. A Finnish sauna is often seen as a sauna cabin, in which rocks are heated at the base of the Finnish sauna cabin in order to heat up the entire room. The Finnish sauna cabin is then kept at 20% humidity by pouring water on those rocks, which, along with the heat, provides the positive health effects of the sauna.

Outdoor Sauna

An outdoor sauna is a sauna unconnected from a house or other building. Usually, outdoor saunas look like smallish cabins, and they can be purchased either in sauna kits or as prefabricated saunas. Sunlight saunas are one particular form of outdoor sauna which uses sunlight in order to heat up the air inside of the sunlight sauna.

Sauna for Weight Loss

Using a sauna for weight loss is one of the most common reasons that people enter into saunas. The principle that enables individuals to use a sauna for weight loss, however, does not extend universally, as it requires the individual to sweat profusely and thus burn off energy. This means that items such as a sauna slim belt are often indeterminately effective, because they do not provide such a level of sweating.

Japanese Sauna

The Japanese sauna is, at this point, most likely modeled after one of the other well known forms of sauna visible internationally, such as the Finnish sauna. A Japanese sauna can most likely found at the number of remaining Japanese baththouses around the country, where one might also be able to obtain a sauna massage.