What is the difference between the Sauna Dome and other saunas?
The Sauna Dome utilizes far infrared heat, which is radiant heat. Radiant heat is simply a form of energy that heats objects directly through a process called conversion, without having to heat the air in between. The infrared segment of the electromagnetic spectrum occurs just below or “infra” to red light, which we perceive as heat. Our sun produces most of its energy output in the infrared segment of the spectrum. The infrared heat in your FIR heat sauna is just like the heat from our sun or that which our own bodies produce as they burn fuel to keep us warm. Infrared sauna saunas use infrared radiant energy to directly penetrate the body’s tissues a depth of over 1 1/2″. Its energy output is tuned to correspond so closely to the body’s own radiant energy that our bodies absorb more than 90% of the infrared waves that reach our skin. A conventional sauna must rely only on indirect means of heat: First, on convection (air currents) and then conduction (direct contact of hot air with
