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an infrared sauna is a sauna that heats its occupants with heaters that emit far infrared radiant heat. unlike traditional finnish saunas, infrared saunas do not use steam, (which heats the air, and thereby the user) but instead use infrared radiation to directly heat the user. an infrared sauna is usually a wooden box, or small wooden room, containing several infrared heaters. in a warm environment, an infrared sauna could be open air and still heat the users in the same manner, since the heaters don't rely on the air being hot, but only hot enough such that the body doesn't cool down without sweating. all the same, normally the units are contained in a room, allowing the air to heat and in effect simulating the feel of a traditional sauna. in other words, the sauna box creates the atmosphere of the sauna while the heaters provide the actual infrared therapy. in an infrared sauna, the infrared heater produces radiant energy, which is the same as the heat from the sun, only without the harmful ultraviol