What is the difference between an ozone sauna and a far infrared sauna?

What each does.

• A far infrared sauna warms the body with radiant heat — infrared crossing the gap and being absorbed at the skin — at a lower ambient temperature than a traditional hot-air sauna, which heats you convectively through hot air. That is the whole function.
• A steam sauna heats and humidifies. Our fibreglass saunas keep the head outside, which avoids the breathing difficulty of a closed steam room.
• An ozone steam sauna does both and adds ozone. Transdermal delivery means administering a substance across the skin rather than by mouth, injection or inhalation: the steam is what makes it work here, and the head-outside design is what keeps the ozone out of your lungs.

Choosing between them.

• If you want heat alone, a far infrared sauna is simpler, cheaper to run and needs no oxygen concentrator or ozone handling.
• If you want ozone, you need a cabinet designed for it: head outside, ozone-resistant materials, a medical oxygen source and adjustable output. Adding an ozone generator to a far infrared or wooden sauna does not produce the same thing and introduces a real inhalation risk.
• If you want both, our Standard and Deluxe saunas combine steam, ozone and far infrared — three modalities in one — and the Red Light model adds near infrared and visible red, blue and green light on top, seven in one.

On the research. Our ozone and far infrared studies pages list the research on each, with links to the sources.

Ozone therapy is regulated differently in each market — check the position where you live before buying.