http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com Your infrared sauna online information Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:57:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently there were some questions from readers about infrared sauna contraindications, so I decided to write about it. The questions were about two types of contraindications I listed in my article 'Is infrared sauna safe for you?': implants and menstruation. The list of contraindications in that article was created by analysis ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/06/19/contraindications-for-infrared-sauna-implants-and-menstruation/ Some time ago I wrote that Soft Heat had closed their factory in Calgary, and that Randy Gomm, who operates infraredsauna.net website, had found a new carbon-heated sauna model line as a replacement for Soft Heat saunas. He wrote on his website that he is waiting for the new saunas ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/03/24/new-carbon-infrared-saunas-arrived-at-infraredsaunanet/ This is a response to a great comment by Klaus on my post from the early days of this blog, about the difference between the infrared sauna and the traditional Finnish sauna. This response started as a follow-up comment, but I decided to make it a blog post later, because ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/03/20/heats-deeper-finnish-or-infrared/ The look of your new FIR sauna cabin can be easily overlooked if you focus on usage details only, like heater type, warm-up time, comfort and so on. But probably you also want an infrared sauna box to fit the interior of your house well. In this case appearance is ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/03/06/infrared-sauna-wood-color-texture/ If you look for infrared saunas at shows and expos in your local area, take a look on NuSauna web pages where they announce plans for participation in various events. NuSauna is a distributor of Cedrus Saunas. Sam' Club Schedule Road Show Schedule http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/03/04/nusauna-publishes-spring-2007-show-schedule/ A new line of infrared sauna models for year 2007, Royal Saunas, was recently announced by SaunaGen. Now, when the infrared sauna market sees new models introduced more often than before, when competition is rising, this is an expected move from such brand as SaunaGen. Here is how SaunaGen official website ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/03/02/saunagen-announces-infrared-royal-saunas-series/ Nice overview of the traditional sauna building process can be found at Great Saunas website. Although filled with references to sauna kits sold by Great Saunas and written about traditional, not infrared saunas, this guide gives you a good overview of the sauna building. It can be handy if you ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/03/01/traditional-sauna-building-overview/ Talking about new infrared sauna brands which use flat carbon sheets as a heating element in their saunas, a new line of infrared saunas, CarbonFlex from Saunatec clearly worths mentioning. I want to remind you, that Saunatec saunas are sold internationally by a group of companies which brand them under ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/02/27/infrared-sauna-review-carbonflex-ig-520-saunatec/ Not so long ago I've noticed the Brighton Sauna website has added details on internals of ceramic heater used in their saunas. Since companies don't usually write about the nature of their far infrared heaters, I've thought it can be interesting: Brighton Sauna does not use carbon heaters in our infrared ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/02/27/brighton-sauna-discloses-construction-details-for-their-heaters/ Typical wood in an infrared sauna is not covered with any polish or paint, and it will smell naturally. Different woods have smells of many tones and intensities, from strong-smelling cedar to the mild smell of poplar. A smell thus becomes one more factor in a choice of wood for ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/02/24/wood-sauna-smell/ Infrared sauna from EaconSauna are manufactured in China and I actually count is as a plus that they are saying it clearly on the website, while many other sauna companies do not like to disclose the origin of their sauna. English language on the website is somewhat awkward, it is ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/02/15/infrared-sauna-review-eacon-002/ In our ordinary life we rarely need to think about hazards that wood in our furniture exposes. If you don't have allergies of high sensitivity for different biological of chemical substances you will probably won't have any medical problems with sauna wood. But if you have allergies, you should be ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/02/12/wood-infrared-sauna-toxin-allergy/ Getting to Asian models, which become more and more widespread in recent time, I'm going to review Waterstar infrared sauna brand, which is manufactured in China, and is very popular among infrared sauna dealers, probably because of good price/quality value. Waterstar brand includes many models, with both carbon and ceramic ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/02/11/infrared-sauna-review-waterstar-wsd-8002ld/ Visiting local home improvement, builder's, home & garden shows and expos is a great idea to see and try live infrared sauna models from their manufacturers and ask vendors questions. For example, Sunlight Saunas have a page on their website with list of shows where you can see their products ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/02/08/infrared-saunas-on-shows-and-expos/ Wood choice on second place after heater choice is a common thing in an infrared sauna buying process. Are the heaters really so important? Note how promoters place heater qualities above all other traits of saunas offered. Most attention is given to wavelengths of a heater. Claims made about wavelengths ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/02/06/infrared-sauna-wood-choice/ Today I want to present a strong European infrared sauna brand, Physiotherm. The model which will be covered falls into 2-person models category. Its Home-Fit 2 infrared sauna model: Wood: Spruce (Austrian). External dimensions: Width: 49 in/120 cm, Depth: 41.2 in/101cm, Height: 79.1 in/194 cm. Heaters: 4 ceramic heaters, on each cabin corner. Outlets: ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/02/01/infrared-sauna-review-physiotherm-home-fit-2/ As Randy Gomm writes on his www.infraredsauna.net website, Soft Heat Saunas has Calgary factory shut down and all operations are being moved to USA. Randy was selling Soft Heat saunas before on his website. On the notice, he writes: Once the existing stock is gone, it will no longer be possible ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/01/30/soft-heat-closes-factory-calgary/ Infrared sauna studies generally fall into two categories. One category, are long big lists of studies about numerous benefits of infrared saunas, which all tell that IR saunas have extremely positive effect on a human health. These studies are usually only mentioned and talked about, but no direct references or ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2007/01/20/still-looking-infrared-sauna-studies/ Website was down due to the hoster problems since December 27 evening. I apologize to everyone who failed to access Infrared Sauna Info in that time. Now problems are hopefully over and website is back online. http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2006/12/28/apologize-infraredsaunainfo-downtime/ Where do you plan to install your sauna? Outdoors? In a cold garage? Basement? The you need to know that it will probably take longer to warm-up than it is said in sauna promotional materials. Maximum sauna temperature can be lower too. I base this statements both on a simple ... http://www.infraredsaunainfo.com/blog/2006/12/26/infrared-sauna-warm-up-unheated/