Heavenly Heat Red Light Infrared Sauna Buyer’s Guide

In this video we go through the real-world performance of the Heavenly Heat Red Light Infrared Sauna so you know exactly what to expect before you buy it. I’ve tested over 40 sauna brands in the last seven years, and what companies show in the marketing usually doesn’t match what happens when you actually sit down and try to sweat in these things. This one breaks down the red light combo model from a buyer’s perspective so you can figure out whether a true dual-therapy cabin is right for your goals, your space, and your budget.

We get into build quality, wall construction, materials, off-gassing concerns, and why people who want the cleanest possible cabin usually end up looking at Heavenly Heat. We go through heat-up time, how fast I actually sweat in this model, how it compares to the Eco and other heavy hitters, and what you gain or give up with a combo sauna versus running a separate red light panel. We also break down the red light system itself, how it’s mounted, how the cooling works, and how it stacks up against standalone PBM panels from Juve, Mito Red, Platinum, and others.

If you’re trying to choose between a traditional infrared cabin, a red light add-on, or a true dual-therapy build like this, this walkthrough will give you a clear picture of what the Heavenly Heat combo actually does well and where it has limitations. By the end you’ll know whether this is the right size and setup for your home, or whether you’d be better off pairing a different sauna with a separate red light device.

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the strongest walls in the industry. So if you’re looking for a clean sauna, this is definitely one to consider. The wood quality is top-notch. The assembly is super clean. They have a really good tongue and groove assembly. It’s the best in the industry. They’re not using any plywood. They’re not using any veneers. It’s all solid wood construction. The only thing that they’re using that’s not solid wood is the front glass. So if you’re looking for a clean sauna, this is definitely one to consider. The wood quality is top-notch. The assembly is super clean. They have a really good tongue and groove assembly. It’s the best in the industry. They’re not using any plywood. They’re not using any veneers. It’s all solid wood construction. The only thing that they’re using that’s not solid wood is the front glass. So if you’re looking for a clean sauna, this is definitely one to consider. The wood quality is top-notch. The assembly is super clean. They have a really good tongue and groove assembly. It’s the best in the industry. They’re not using any plywood. They’re not using any veneers. It’s all solid wood construction. The only thing that they’re using that’s not solid wood is the front glass. So if you’re looking for a clean sauna, this is definitely one to consider.

The most stout walls in the industry. Having a slightly more insulated sauna that holds the heat. When you look at the ego, does it really need to be built that? That thing’s like a tank. Does it really need that? Probably not. Does it help contribute to every little aspect that you could just turn it on and in 10 minutes it’s at temperature and you’re sweating your ass off? Yeah, it does make a difference. One through five, five being the best, one is like, I wouldn’t buy this sauna at all. As far as build and materials, what are you giving that? I’d give it a five if it had glue in it. People are going to think that’s nuts, but I like Titebond II food safe wood glue. Anything that I build, accessories for the saunas, I use glue. I just don’t want them to, I don’t want anything that I laminate together to move 10 years from now. That’s just me. I think people would give it a five out of five based on all the other product offerings in the marketplace. They probably are the opposite of me and love the fact that there’s no glue used.

The second point I want to touch on is heat up time, sweat performance, just the general how is the heat in the sauna. I think something you mentioned for the first point we were talking about, which is the build and materials, the thickness of the walls supports this so much. Could you talk to me about how fast it heats up, how quickly you sweat in it? That’s what people really care about. Once it’s up, it’s running, it’s hot, you’ve been sweating for a second. Does it feel like it really packs the punch or does it feel like it sits you right where you need to be? What’s your overall experience sweating in it? With the red light therapy sauna, I don’t think that it packs the punch of the Eco, but almost nothing does. It also has really even heat. It heats up great. You have to remember you do have a red light therapy panel on the front wall, so it’s not like that’s some gigantic heater. I wouldn’t expect the most intense heat or sweat experience of all the products in their product line. It’s not going to compete with something like the Eco. It’s definitely not going to compete with something like the hybrid combo saunas where there’s a traditional sauna heater and infrared.

For a dual therapy device, with the wall construction being as insulating as it is and holding the heat, it definitely heats up quickly. It’s got very even heat. There’s no lack of anything that will leave you wanting, and especially if you use the red light therapy while the sauna is preheating so that your body is not sweating yet, that’s the way to get optimal PBMT for yourself. Probably only used it once or twice with the glass panel. I mostly spent the majority of the time, because it is a red light sauna, working with the red light panel installed. It’s the same layout as the one person. It just has a red light therapy panel on the front. Once you got in there, once you had it preheated, do you sweat quicker than other saunas? Do you sweat the same? How does it run once you’re in it? No, not really, but I think part of that is the way I use it too.

I would say it takes a few extra minutes for me to sweat in the red light therapy sauna versus others, but I’m also not using it the same. I’m focused on getting red light therapy while the sauna is preheating. When I first get into it, I don’t want it preheated. I don’t want it super hot. I want to do 10 minutes of red light therapy as the sauna is slowly starting to heat up. It probably takes me another 10 minutes after I’m done with all that to even start sweating. Usually it takes me 12, 13, 14 minutes to start sweating profusely in, I don’t know, like a standard one or two person sauna. It’s a little quicker, like under 10 minutes in something like a Heavenly Heat Eco. In a red light therapy model, it’s probably, I don’t know, 21, 22 minutes. We could redo that test though and see what it’s like if you just heated the sauna up like normal and didn’t do the red light portion. The only reason that I’m doing that is because if you look at the PubMed research, when the body’s core temperature is elevated and your skin is covered in a thick layer of sebaceous sweat, supposedly the photobiomodulation conversion is downregulated. I don’t want to waste my time in there doing red light therapy while my body is at its peak sweat session and get the least amount of red light therapy benefits possible. It just doesn’t make any sense. I’m trying to maximize the device in a dual fashion, but you’re paying a price by doing that because it’s not like you turn the sauna on, went and made your drink, went for a walk or something, come back 20 minutes later and it’s preheated. You’re drastically cutting down on that time to sweat, or I’m sorry, increasing the time to sweat instead of backwards.

You’ve owned a ton of red light therapy panels and you’ve owned expensive ones, cheap ones. As far as if you took it out, separated it, and you stacked it up with all your other red light therapy panels, how does the actual panel perform? Excellent. It’s every bit as good as the competition. In fact, it might be like 5% to 10% better than some of the competition just because of their output, their milliwatts per centimeter squared ratings at said distance is very consistent. The lens angles that they’re using, the five wavelength panels that they have are targeted at basically modeling the benefits from the PubMed research. Right up there, just as good if not better than platinum LED, Mido Red, Juve, definitely better than a Juve because they use a metal housing. The Juve are plastic, so they’re not grounded. Tons of electric fields. Who wants to spend $1,500 on a plastic … At least, if I drop this thing, it might have a dent in it, but it’s not going to crack. If I drop a Juve, I don’t know, man. I think those need to be updated. I like the red light therapy panels. A lot of thought and attention to detail went into producing them. At the end of the day, there’s not a huge difference between a lot of the top red light therapy panels, but they have all the stuff that matters.

Overall, for heat layout, heat quality, and then red light therapy, what do you give it if you were going to go one to five? Heat quality, red light therapy, a four. It’s never going to be a five out of five for … You’re not going to have one device that’s a five out of five for heat and a five out of five for red light when it’s doing both. You know what I’m saying? Absolutely. For them to get a four, I just want everyone watching to know that Matt has really high standards for this stuff. I would have given it a five, but it’s Matt. This is the truth, though, because if you were to take a two-person sauna of a different brand that has no red light therapy, so it’s not an even comparison, but where … Immediately my brain goes to, if we take red light therapy out of the equation, where the red light therapy panel is, you’re going to have another heater in some brands. How could you expect, if you’re comparing, it’s Ford, Chevy, Honda, Toyota, whatever. If you’re comparing the entire marketplace, you’re not going to get a five out of five on heat trying to get one product to do something else at a four out of four, too. It does both of those really well, but it can’t be the best at both because it’s a dual therapy device, if that makes sense. What would be cool is if they had another heater that you could swap out, so it could be glass, it could be a heater, or it could be a red light therapy panel. The Clearlight, the only company on the market, the Clearlight, has accessories like that. Some people would say, oh, well, a Clearlight Sanctuary with the red light therapy panel in it is better than this red light therapy sauna. You might like the look of it. You might like that it’s pre-wired to be accessorized like that. It’s still going to be on a fixed plane in the center of the sauna, which means when you spend sideways and try and lean up against the back sidewall in order to get your side or to do other stuff, and you can take those out of the sauna, too.

If you really look at the specs, now we’re talking about a two wavelength panel versus a five. In the Clearlight Sanctuary, you’re only going to have 600 nanometer wavelength and 800 nanometer wavelength red light therapy. In the Heavenly Heat, you get the full five wavelength panel. Does that matter to you? That’s a personal decision. Does the PubMed research support that you really need those wavelengths? Yes and no. The majority of the benefits are going to come from the 600 and 800. It’s also the most widely studied. These other wavelengths are just now coming out with more and more info. Some people want the best of the best and want to hit all angles. If there’s a five wavelength panel available, they would pick that every day so they have the best chance of getting all the benefits of red light therapy, yada, yada, yada. At some point, you have to make a personal decision on which is right for you, but there are differences.

For number three, this is going to be, in my opinion, one of the most important things to figure out for the person buying the sauna because if they get this wrong, you’ve said this in the past, you’ve gotten everything wrong. If they get the wrong size sauna, it doesn’t fit in their space, or if they get too small a sauna and they can’t fit the amount of people that they wanted in there, this is where people make the most, I don’t want to say drastic, but this is where the most mistakes are made. Then shipping them back, Kevin Lee, he’s pretty good about that, but you don’t want to have to ship it back after you’ve built it because that, I mean, have you had to do that before? Yeah. That’s how you see me in videos, getting real angry from like five years ago. I’m much more calm today. Hey, you try to put a cock in the box and then come back and tell me what you think. I will not. I have a heavenly heat sauna in my garage. I’m waiting for you to get back in town to build it. So for number three, size and fit, man, it is a two person sauna, right? Well, yeah, that’s the size. I mean, I don’t know if I’d put two full size adults in there sweating shoulder to shoulder, but it is spacious for a two person if that’s what you can afford and that’s, you know, the right size for the room that you have available. You know, you make it work with a spouse and stuff. It’s not like, it’s not like buying a one to two person sauna.

From Amazon. That’s only 36 inches wide and you think you’re going to get two people in there and this is a real, you know, four foot by four foot footprint. Um, so you have a much better chance of being comfortable if one of you is larger and one of you is smaller. Like typically, uh, the husband’s a little bit, you know, wider than the wife or whatever and somehow you, you know, make that work comfortably.

This sauna is the perfect fit for somebody who wants sauna and red light therapy in one package, meaning they don’t want to have to go out and buy a separate red light therapy device and figure out how they’re going to mount it on the back of a door or figure out how they’re going to buy an accessory stand, uh, and where they’re going to set that up and stand in front of the panel or figure out, I like a horizontal stand if I’m going to lay underneath it, but it takes up a lot of room.

So figure out how, you know, they could fit, you know, a horizontal stand and have a large area to stretch out and lay under. It’s for the person that that’s too much. They’re never going to do it. So they’re only going to get a sauna, but they’re never going to experience any red light therapy benefits for the next 10 or 15 years.

This is a dual therapy device and you have choice. You could do everything that I just said and take the panel out of the sauna and use it in all those ways. If for some reason you changed your mind, but if you don’t want to deal with trying to figure out how to set all that stuff up and you know, do that separate from sauna, this is a perfect fit because you can get two in one.

Is it, you know, perfect? No. Like if you had low back pain and you wanted to do red light therapy on yourself, it’s going to be more challenging for you to try to sit in the sauna when the red light therapy panels mounted, you know, on the front wall and target specific areas like that. They’re not easy to reach.

However, if you’re never going to go through the trouble of setting that stuff up, this device solves all that for you. And so you can get red light therapy while the sauna is preheating. When you do your sessions all in one cabin, right? There’s no running extension cords over to the door jam so that you can hang, you know, the little cable on the back of the door mount and every time you open the door, it smacks the thing unless you put double-sided 3M tape Velcro on there to keep it. You can imagine that I’ve done this a time or two.

I was going to say, it sounds like you’ve done this exact thing. I’ve had all the setups. So it’s, I understand both camps. It’s just going to come down to what type of person are you? What are your needs? What is your schedule? If you’ve got, you know, busy lifestyle or you have kids or you have, you know, animals that love to chew on things. It’s great to not have, you know, cords and stuff hanging and things like that and just have it all inside one little sleek setup there.

There’s, I understand there’s benefit for a lot of people that aren’t going to do all that other stuff or it’s not advantageous to them. This is a perfect fit if that’s you. So that’s my review and our overview of the Heavenly Heat Red Light Therapy model. If you want to compare it to other models or sizes, check out the Black Friday reviews on the channel. Join the Facebook group, Certified Sauna Community on Facebook. There’s 35,000 people in there. Many of them have this sauna, so you can ask them about it. Don’t just take my word for it. We’ll see you in the next one. Red Light Therapy Saunal, if, Saunal, Saunal, ****.