Home Interior Design

There are several temperature settings for different types of Infrared sauna. For a traditional or steam sauna, the heat setting is a high of 160 F to 200 F. This setting is the appropriate setting for a steam sauna as the body is heated through convection. Which is heating the air around the body to heat the body, the room temperature would have to have a high heat temperature so as to deliver the beneficial heat of a steam sauna. This 160 F to 200 F temperature of a steam sauna, will give the needed sauna heat benefits to a person but only on a limited period of time of 10 to 15 minutes at most, because the person inside the sauna room will be very uncomfortable due to the intense heat of the steam sauna room. To enable a person to have a longer duration of sauna heat, after 10 to 15 minutes, the person should leave the steam sauna and get a quick shower and then get back to the steam sauna for another 10 to 15 minutes. Persons with fragile health are not encouraged to try this kind of sauna due to the uncomfortable heat that they have to endure.

On the other hand, the appropriate temperature setting for an infrared sauna is only 120 F to 150 F. This temperature, although much lower than steam sauna, can give a more intense and deep penetrating heat to the body. This is because the infrared heat rays are directed to the body and not on the air around the body. Likewise, this will provide for a cooler and more comforting therapy session inside the sauna room. In this regard, the person having therapy can even lengthen his or her stay inside the sauna to fully enjoy more the beneficial infrared heat rays being emitted by the sauna infrared emitter plates.

This appropriate temperature setting for an saunas which is much lower in comparison to a steam sauna, can likewise be beneficial to the homeowner in terms of power consumption. It is estimated that for a 30 minutes infrared sauna session, the average power expense will only be 7 cents.

The lower temperature of an home infrared sauna is beneficial to persons who have high blood pressure, and those persons who have breathings disorders. Even health care centers and hospitals have now their own infrared home sauna to provide for their patients the beneficial effects of an infrared sauna operating on a lower appropriate temperature setting.