Hi Matt, Thanks for all the reviews. I see you have a page for the Clearlight VS Sunlighten, but it’s not done. Do you have any additional info here? I can’t figure out what to do… I’m a member of a sauna detox group where everyone says Clearlight all the way. But it’s weird with the full spectrum, and I don’t see why I have to have all three wavelengths to sweat like you say? They also say Sunlighten puts toxic mesh over the heaters, and to stay away. I don’t know, seems like a one way ticket to nowhere!
Then Sunlighten says Clearlight is built like crap, doesn’t have nearly the emissivity on their heaters, and and that the sauna group guy has no idea what he’s talking about and might be a paid spokesperson for Clearlight. They also say their EMF is super low, and you don’t even need to worry about electric fields. I thought that it does matter and that those levels should be lower?! Argh, want to pull my hair out right now!
Can’t decide what to do, please help!
Video Transcript (AI Generated)
How you doing guys?
Today’s infrared sauna question is going to be, hi Matt, thanks for all the reviews.
I see you have a page for clear light versus sunlight and but it’s not done yet.
Do you have any additional info here?
I can’t figure out what to do.
I’m a member of a sauna detox group where everyone says clear light all the way.
Here we go again. (laughing) But it’s weird with the full spectrum and I don’t see why I have to have all three wavelengths to sweat like you say, question mark.
They also say sunlight and puts toxic mesh over the heaters and to stay away.
I don’t know, it seems like a one-way ticket to nowhere. (laughing) Then sunlight and says clear light is built like crap, doesn’t have nearly the emissivity on their heaters and that the sauna group guy has no idea what he’s talking about and might be a paid spokesperson for clear light.
Okay.
I don’t think that’s true, but we can get into that.
They also say their EMF is super low and you don’t even need to worry about electric fields.
I thought that it does matter and that those levels should be lower.
Arg, want to pull my hair out right now. (laughing) I feel you, I do.
Can’t decide what to do, please help.
Okay.
Where did this come from anyway?
Okay, yeah, I can help you with this.
Let’s just start from the top.
I’ll just go a little bit at a time ’cause you got a lot of stuff in here that is almost like a quite a different, different videos in itself almost.
I do have a page for clear light versus sunlight and that page has been there for over a year and it is incomplete, it is not finished.
That’s my fault.
I planned to do more testing.
I also didn’t want to, here’s the deal at the end of the day.
Both sunlight and clear light have some very similar products and very different products.
And I didn’t know that when I put up that placeholder page.
I thought I would just go to a spa in Orlando, like in mid 2017 and pay to use a sunlight and then pay to use a clear light and figure out which one I like better and then just do like a little review of it.
It turns out that sunlight and impulse is very different than a clear light sanctuary.
Sunlight and signature is very similar to a clear light premier.
Then they also have sunlight and dome, right, and then a clear light dome.
And they’re different, the company culture and the focus of each company with sunlight and then clear light is also different.
You know, the clear light, geez, I can’t even say the right thing here.
What I realized was that to do a brand comparison like that, it really has to be on two specific sauna models that are an apples to apples comparison.
So you wouldn’t compare like a clear light premier to a sunlight and impulse, just as you really wouldn’t compare sunlight and signature to a clear light sanctuary.
You know, one is like a, you know, they’re just, they’re different animals, different price points, different creature comforts, different features, you know, some are just far infrared saunas, some are full spectrum saunas, some are the dome saunas.
And so, and then clear light is all about, you know, low EMF as in low electric fields and low magnetic fields, which I like now.
Two years ago, I really, I have to be honest, I was not a fan of clear light.
And it’s because I went through a similar experience that I think you’re describing here.
There was a sauna Facebook detox group.
I don’t know if it’s the same one that you are talking about.
You didn’t link that here.
I probably is.
And I just didn’t like the salesmanship in there.
I was gonna buy a clear light.
And then it was like all done via private message.
Everything was hush hush.
No one actually talked about the pricing.
People, I found out people were getting different prices for different areas of the country, different times of the year.
As a result, it felt like fake sales going on, like, oh, get in now before the sale, you know, ends and the price goes up and all this stuff.
And I was just like, something is not right.
And then it also was like the herd mentality, which I totally understand now, if this is the same group that we’re talking about.
And they basically hate sunlight and with a passion.
I mean, sunlight and could never do anything right, right?
Which isn’t the case at all.
And so I didn’t like that.
And so I started testing the saunas myself because I couldn’t get to the bottom of it, right?
And I started buying stuff and I wasn’t going to put out $5,000 without being sure ’cause it was a lot of money, right?
And I just couldn’t figure out what to do.
So I bought a cheap sauna from Costco or Amazon, whichever came first, you can go watch my reviews and see.
And so, you know, I was thinking to myself, well, let me get a cheap one.
Let me try it for a little while.
If I really like it, then it’ll give me time to figure out which one of these more expensive ones is the best buy.
And then I’ll pick that one, right?
‘Cause it’s something about the high pressure and like, you know, buy it right now.
What kind of wood do you want?
It just wasn’t working for me, right?
And so once I started testing the saunas and I realized that I was going to come full circle and go back to the Clearlight and the Sunlight and all this stuff, I didn’t want to put up a brand comparison page that just compared two different brands without being really specific because that’s not really fair to either one of them, right?
So you can’t just say Clearlight versus Sunlight as a whole, right, I don’t want to be that person because it’s not accurate.
It’s not apples to apples, it’d be apples to oranges.
And I just don’t think it’s the right way to do stuff.
So I’ve got to redo that when I can have the time to do a direct comparison for a competing model between the two companies.
That said, I can still offer you some advice and I can give you my opinion on what I would buy out of the two companies and why.
I will also give you my opinion about the way a lot of the sauna marketing is done and how I don’t like it, but I will tell you at the end of the day what is the best criteria to analyze to select the right brand for you.
So let’s go, but you are right.
I do have the placeholder page there.
I have not finished it.
I’m sorry, that’s my fault.
Let’s go.
So I think that was the additional info or the backstory that you may have been looking for, at least I hope.
If not, I can always make another video for you clarifying.
It says, “I’m a member of a detox sauna group.”
Clear light all the way, yeah.
Full spectrum.
Yeah, so I don’t think you need full spectrum if you just wanna do a normal niacin detox or you just wanna sweat out heavy metals or get in better health.
There’s benefits to having some of the full spectrum saunas because they add heat to the front of the sauna.
If they have frontal infrared heaters, I mean, you might be adding 500 watts of heat right in front of you.
That’s gonna make a difference whether it’s full spectrum or not.
But at the same time, most of those saunas are $2,000 more.
They’re more expensive to put in because usually you have to have an electrician run a dedicated circuit for them and so on and so forth.
So it’s hard for me to answer that question because it will become highly individual.
It’ll be a highly individual basis or a case-by-case basis really.
What’s more important to you?
Is budget your primary concern?
Are you in poor health and you got a lot of other doctor stuff to pay for and you just need something to help you sweat for the best price that’s reliable, not gonna break, give you what you need, blah, blah, blah.
Or is money not that big of a deal?
You want the nicest sauna you can get, the most comfortable with all the gadgets.
You want it to connect to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and do all this stuff.
You know, that’s two different saunas for two different types of people.
So, you know, you’d have to give me more information to say one way or another, but it’s my opinion that no, you do not need full spectrum in order to have a good detox or to have a good sauna experience.
The saunas, I can have any sauna that I want on the planet and I just use a fire and fred sauna.
I don’t know how to give you more proof in the pudding than that.
That should tell you everything you need to know right there.
They also say Sunlighten puts toxic mesh over their heaters and to stay away.
Well, yeah, if it’s who I’m thinking of, they always have something to say about Sunlighten.
Now, I wouldn’t say that Sunlighten puts toxic mesh over their heaters because Clearlight also puts material or a mesh in front of their heaters.
So I hate that.
I don’t think that’s a good comparison.
The Clearlight build quality is like the best in the industry.
The actual woodworking cabinetry, the fit and finish, you know, the cabin build quality itself is second to none.
It is top notch.
The thing that drives me to not really like the Sunlightens too much are the EMF levels are higher than I want them to be.
I can’t do anything about that.
They build great saunas, they’re amazing quality, they’re excellent for the price that you pay.
Just their company culture as a whole is not focused on mitigating magnetic fields and electric fields down to the level of what we do for the certified sauna list.
And so, you know, it’s a tough thing.
We’re gonna switch gears here.
It says, then Sunlighten says Clearlight is built like crap and doesn’t have nearly the emissivity on their heaters and that the sauna group has no idea what he’s talking about and might be a paid spokesperson for Clearlight. (laughing) It does seem that way, doesn’t it?
It’s like, I call it the Clearlight, or the, Clearlight.
I call it the Sunlighten hater group, right?
Like Sunlighten could never do anything in the world that’s halfway good for people, right?
(laughing) So while, (laughing) you’d be surprised how much this stuff comes up and how much nonsense, you know, it’s like a back and a forth.
You might as well just be dribbling and running up and down the court ’cause it’s pretty much like a terrible basketball game. (laughing) We get seats in the bleachers or something, I don’t know.
But we can hear it clear as day, I don’t know.
Better have a couple of beers, make you a little cocktail for this one.
So I would disagree in saying that one sauna has greater emissivity over the other.
They’re both carbon panel saunas.
You’re not gonna get like a huge difference in emissivity from a different carbon panel heater than another.
There might be a five to 15% difference and I’m being extremely generous here. (laughing) Even agreeing with it at all.
I would kind of agree that the sauna group guy has no idea what he’s talking about.
He’s not a paid spokesperson for Clearlight, but I definitely agree with, he might not have no idea what he’s talking about. (laughing) That’s evident because he doesn’t actually own the saunas that he says are the best.
When you have to ask, if this is the right, this has to be it.
If it’s the sauna detox group that I’m thinking of that I was banned from, it’s gotta be it ’cause no one talks like this except for those people.
And when you don’t own the saunas that you promote the most, I mean, it’s just ridiculous.
When you have to ask other people what the dimensions of something is because you don’t have one in your house, yet you say they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread.
That’s, I mean, that’s all I needed to know.
That’s all I needed to hear.
‘Cause if you do that to me, I’m gonna say, well, why don’t you FaceTime me really quick?
I’m gonna walk in the other room with a tape measure and we’re gonna look at the sauna and I don’t know the measurements off the top of my head, but I can damn sure show them to you.
They also say EMF is super low and you don’t even need to worry about magnetic field or electric fields.
I don’t agree with that.
Sunlight, I would promote sunlight and saunas on the certified sauna list today if the EMF was a little lower.
It’s just too high.
The Impulse has 15 milligauss magnetic fields in it.
I wasn’t even checking for body voltage and electric fields back then, so I can’t comment on that.
But I can tell you from seeing other people’s videos, it’s not gonna be low enough to be on the certified sauna list at all.
Now, the Signature, on the other hand, does have lower magnetic fields.
However, I don’t know if the current, see, that’s the other thing.
I don’t wanna speak out of turn.
Like, somebody sent me all the new literature and the info for the brand new 2019 or 2020 sunlight and saunas that are coming out.
Like, they revamped their line or something.
So I don’t wanna say that they’re a pile of crap and then they’ve been addressing this stuff the whole time and then they come out with a great sauna or something like that.
Who knows?
If I haven’t been in it or I haven’t tested it, I can’t really tell you for sure.
This is what I know to be true about previous year saunas as far as the Sunlight and Signature and Sunlight and Impulse.
Electric fields were not mitigated.
So if electric fields are not mitigated, you’re gonna have high body voltage and only partially, you’re only gonna have partial EMF levels reduced.
So that’s not something that I would recommend.
That’s not something I would use for myself.
And you’re never gonna find something like that on the certified sauna list.
The whole point of the list is so that people don’t have to worry about things like this.
I thought that it does matter and those levels should be lower.
You’re correct.
They should be lower and it does matter. (laughs) I’m gonna wanna pull my hair out right now.
I can’t decide what to do.
Well, if I had to pick one out over the other today, like if you were comparing a Clearlight Sanctuary to a Sunlight and Impulse, I would pick the Sanctuary, not because one has better full spectrum than the other.
I don’t believe any of that bullshit.
I believe that the Clearlight Sanctuary is lower EMF than a Sunlight and Impulse.
So I would choose it based on that alone.
And the same goes for the Clearlight Premier versus the Sunlight and Signature.
I would pick the Clearlight Premier because I know for a fact that it has all magnetic fields, electric fields, everything is mitigated.
You can go watch my video where I personally tested it.
It’ll also give you a two-person model that’ll work on a 15 amp circuit so you don’t have to hire an electrician to put it in, which is what most people in America are looking for.
Two to $3,000, they don’t wanna spend five or $6,000 they don’t have to.
Something that’s well-made, that’s gonna last, it’s gonna be low EMF, not gonna zap them.
I mean, that’s pretty much what everybody wants.
You can also, for updates, you can also check out certifiedsaunas.com or you can go to the certified sauna list.
I’ve got coupon codes on there if you wanna buy a Clearlight or something else that I promote.
You might actually also like the Radiant Health sauna.
That was the sauna of the year for 2019.
A little bit cheaper, still very high quality unit.
You can see my video review of it.
It’s the sauna that I choose to use in my house but I have more than one sauna and I could pick whatever I wanted.
A little bit cheaper, same discount code for all the companies.
It’s mattjustice-500.
Some companies that’ll save you three to $600 off, depends, usually it’s 500 bucks along with some free goodies.
But I would check out the list of certified saunas.
You can find it on my blog or you can just Google it.
Can’t decide what to do.
That’s what I would do.
I mean, I would go with the Clearlight over the Sunlight and given the options and the comparison or given the differences in EMF as it stands right now.
Unless something changes in the future in which I’ll redo the reviews and we can test any new products that come out.
But that would be my choice.
Not that Sunlight doesn’t make a good product, they do.
Just the EMF levels are higher than I’d like them to be.
So I hope that helps and hope that shed some light on stuff.
If I miss something or if I misquoted something, a lot of times in the video, I’m looking at something and I say the opposite brand.
You catch it in the video when you’re listening, but I don’t see it until later, until it’s already on YouTube and then we can’t do anything about it.
So anyway, hope that helps.
Have a great day and I’ll see you in tomorrow’s video.