Hi Matt, I consider myself fortunate to have found your reviews. I am in the process of researching saunas and experienced the same misinformation and propaganda you did. I found it very frustrating. Based on your guidance I am going to buy a Radiant Health or Clearlight 1 person sauna.
My wife wants it for weight loss. I want it for detoxing due to an inefficient liver and a build up of toxins.
I’m now finding it difficult to distinguish between the two.
I’ve been told by a manual therapist that full spectrum does make a difference. All sauna experts ex-Clearlight say it is just marketing spin. Can you clarify?
I told them both i found them through your blog.
Price – seems to be equal
I have Radiant Health at $2,800 + $220 shipping = $3,020 and Clearlight at $3,000 + shipping discount.
EMF – seems to be equal
My question is around Clearlight’s use of carbon and ceramic heaters. Is there any additional value to the ceramic?
You mention that Clearlight is the hottest you’ve experienced. This seems like a meaningful differentiator.
Any guidance you can provide is greatly appreciated.
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All right, today’s infrared sauna question is from Rob.
Just says, “Difficulty making a decision?
“I haven’t read it yet, so we’re just gonna do this one “off the cuff.”
It says, “Hi Matt, I consider myself fortunate “to have found your reviews.
“I’m in the process of researching saunas “and experienced the same misinformation “and propaganda you did.”
Yeah, not a lot has changed in the last year and a half, despite my doing reviews. (laughs) He says, “I found it very frustrating.
“Based on your guidance, I’m going to buy a Radiant Health “or a Clear Light one-person sauna.
“My wife wants it for weight loss, “and I want it for detoxing due to an inefficient liver “and buildup of toxins.
“I’m now finding it difficult to distinguish “between the two.
“I’ve been told by a manual, manual therapist,” maybe it’s massage therapist and it was autocorrect, I don’t know, (laughs) “that a full spectrum does make a difference.
“All sauna experts say, ‘X Clear Light,’ “say, ‘It’s just a marketing spin.’
“All sauna experts, ‘X Clear Light’.”
Oh, people that used to be for Clear Light, now they’re X Clear, okay.
“Can you clarify, just a marketing spin?”
I told them both before I found, told them both before I found your blog?
Found them through your blog?
Okay.
“Price seems to be equal.
“I have Radiant Health at 2,800,” this is for one person, for the people watching, “plus 220 shipping equals $3,020 out the door, “and Clear Light as $3,000 even plus shipping discount.”
So yeah, I talk about that in other videos.
Some companies have cheaper saunas, some companies have a little bit more expensive and then they subsidize the shipping.
It’s usually about the same.
Rob goes on to say that, “EMF seems to be equal.
“My question is around Clear Light’s use “of carbon and ceramic heaters.
“Is there any value to the ceramic?
“You mentioned that the Clear Light “is the hottest you’ve experienced.
“This seems like a meaningful differentiator.
“Any guidance you can provide is greatly appreciated.”
Rob, hi Rob.
So I don’t know where I’ve ever said that Clear Light is the hottest that I’ve experienced.
The hottest saunas that I would have experienced would be a steam sauna, number one, and number two, one of the old ceramic saunas where you sit close to the giant ceramic heaters at your back and they get so hot you have to move, otherwise it’s too intense because you can’t take it.
I used to like that kind of thing, but it’s not really, most people don’t really care for that because it’s uncomfortable and you have to kind of spin around in the sauna to get away from the hot spots and then people complain because if the heaters in some of the older ceramic saunas are not evenly spaced throughout the entire sauna cabin, meaning you’d have to have some in the back, on the side, and in the front, you get what they call cold spots, which just means your body, like in a, if you go look at my TheraSauna review from, geez, it’s almost two years now, a year and a half ago, something like that, you’ll see that there are no frontal, there’s no frontal infrared in that sauna.
There’s no heaters on the sides or anything like that.
The ceramics heaters in the back get very hot and they do work well and I like them, but the issue then is you kind of have a cold spot across the entire front and you’ve got this really intense heat from the ceramic in the back and it just doesn’t balance out and so I don’t know if you’ve read any reviews about this, but generally when people talk about hot and cold spots, what they’re talking about is that exact situation where you’ve got these blistering hot heaters in the back and you kind of either have to turn sideways or turn around to, one, give your back a little bit of a break, and two, get the same effect on the other side because there just isn’t placement.
So if you’re talking about getting a real ceramic sauna and not this, what I’m about to discuss in just a second, I would only buy a ceramic sauna that number one is low EMF, but two, has heaters placed all around it.
You can go watch my high-tech health review.
They have front, they’ve got back heaters, lower heaters, and front heaters, so that’s a sauna that works really well.
I’ve personally used it, but I don’t think that’s what you’re really asking about.
I think what you’re asking about is this and that’s the use of carbon and ceramic heaters from Clearlight.
Now, I don’t know if you’re talking about the, this is just gonna be my opinion, and I like Clearlight saunas, keep that in mind, and I do promote them and they’re great and everything else.
I think what you’re referring to is the fancy dancy marketing speak where the carbon heaters themselves, the sheet is a combination, blended ceramic and carbon, this, that, and the other.
If that’s what you’re talking about, you can already tell from my face and from my demeanor that I think that is kind of a load of horse shit.
You could put a ceramic dusting in the mold when they laminate the carbon heaters, but it’s gonna be 95% carbon and like 5% ceramic.
What I’m saying is if you were to quantify that by actual user experience, you could go in that carbon sauna that’s a mixture of carbon and ceramic, and you could go in a carbon sauna right next to it that’s not a mixture, it’s just ceramic, and I highly doubt you would feel a difference because I’ve been in a lot of carbon saunas and they pretty much mostly feel the same.
Now, you didn’t specify this, but if you’re talking about a Clearlight Sanctuary, which I don’t think you are because the price would be astronomically higher than the figures that you just gave me, there is a difference when you have the heaters in the front on the back of the glass.
So a Clearlight Premier has far infrared panels on the front.
They’re generally smaller.
In a Clearlight Sanctuary, usually there’s two, three to 500 watt, usually three, I don’t know how many watts.
Anyway, the wattage is important to note because you’re adding that much power or that much heat to the front of the sauna.
So it does make a difference in that.
Let’s not even get into near infrared, full spectrum and all that jazz.
The far infrared is doing the most of the work, but whether or not it’s a full spectrum heater in the front or just a far infrared heater in the front, you’re adding like five, 600 watts to the front of the sauna.
Now that’s gonna make a difference in your, the perspective or the perceived heat that you have when you use that.
I’m not saying that you have to have the near infrared or you have to have full spectrum heaters.
I think, you know, far infrared works just fine.
Again, this is my opinion.
There’s a lot of people that don’t agree with me.
I would just say, you know, just to kind of protect yourself, I would just simply ask them, if they’re talking to you about a couple of different saunas just say, well, what did you think when you used it?
And just pause.
Just say, well, what did you, what, when you use the Radiant Health, what was your feeling when you got done with your session compared to when you used the Clearlight Premier IS1, what was your opinion?
And just wait.
Just wait and see if they go around that or wait and see if they say, oh, I have actually been in both of them, which I don’t think you’ll find.
And that would be, I mean, to be honest with you, for most of these questions, that should really be my answer to a lot of them is when you’re talking to a sauna salesperson, just simply say, well, which ones have you been in?
And when they tell you one or two, your jaw is gonna drop and you’re gonna be like, well, what the hell, man?
How can you be advising me on a multi-thousand dollar purchase decision and you haven’t used the product that you’re telling me is a piece of shit, right?
And once that sinks in, you’re gonna be like, what am I doing?
I’m wasting my time. (laughs) But anyway, Rob, at the end of the day, you’re gonna be fine with either the Radiant Health or the Clear Light Premier.
They’re both excellent saunas.
They’re probably the two saunas that are a spitting image of each other.
If you’re trying to compare two saunas in the marketplace, either one is going to serve you well.
Obviously, I’m partial to the Radiant Health just because, I don’t know, I just like it.
It just has a good feel.
It works really good.
There’s a couple of creature comforts that it has that the Clear Light Premier doesn’t have, such as a heated bench.
It has delayed start built into the control panel, so there is no connecting the sauna to the internet or anything like that to set delayed start.
So if you leave, or if you, I’m sorry, if you want to leave and come back and have the sauna ready, you don’t have to rely on any type of wireless connection to do that.
It’s just built right into the control.
It’s not the most specific thing ever.
Like, it’s basically just a countdown of a number of hours, right?
So it takes a time or two to get used to using it, but basically you just turn the sauna on, and let’s just say I’m leaving for work and I’ll be home in eight and a half hours.
I would set it for eight hours.
So in eight hours, it kicks on.
By the time I get home and change, it’s 30 minutes into preheating, it’s ready for me, and that’s how it works.
It works really good.
So those are a couple of things that I get feedback on that people really like.
But again, either sauna is going to serve you well.
They’re both super low EMF.
The magnetic fields are really low.
Electric fields are really low.
Body voltage is low.
RF radiation is low.
And I’m not just saying that, and I’m not going to defer you to some bullshit EMF report done by a third party.
You can go, which it seems like you may have already done.
You can go watch my live videos on YouTube.
I review both saunas with the same equipment.
They both test incredibly well.
What’s the other thing?
They both have the ceramic tile on the floor, which is something that a lot of people like.
A lot of people are concerned that the sweat will drip onto the wood and stain it, or this, that, and the other.
It is a sauna.
You are supposed to sweat, so I would use it and enjoy it.
No, I’m being funny.
But they both have that.
So they’re kind of, in that regard, they’re a spitting image of each other, really.
So I think either one would go well.
I am partial to the Radiant Health.
I think both of them will honor my discount code, even if you’ve already spoken to them, you can try it.
It’s MattJustice500.
And yeah, if you have any other questions, I know it’s been a little while.
I’m really behind on answering questions, getting emails out, and things like that.
So who knows, you probably already bought the sauna, but maybe this will help somebody else.
So if you have any other questions, Rob, let me know in the comments, and I can make another video for you tomorrow.