Infrared Sauna Leader and Global Wellness Company Launches New UV Disinfecting Wand That Kills 99.9% of Germs/Bacteria & Viruses Within Seconds
Berkeley, California Jan 4, 2022 (Issuewire.com) – Just in time for the Winter, Clearlight Infrared®, a global wellness company and leader in the infrared sauna space, creating environmentally friendly and eco-conscious saunas using non-toxic materials, offers the new Jacuzzi® UV Disinfecting Wand. The Disinfecting Wand uses UVC/UVA mixed wave light technology that has proven to kill up to 99.9% of germs, bacteria, and viruses off of surfaces.
“We realize the pandemic has caused people to look for ways to clean their home and the environment around them without having to use toxic or alcohol-based products. Clearlight Infrared Saunas™ created the wand to make disinfecting easier, quicker, and more environmentally friendly,” said Andy Kaps, President at Clearlight Infrared.
The Wand is doctor-designed with UV-C wavelengths of 270-280nm and with UV-A wavelengths of 380-405 nm, making it up to 10 times stronger than other UV disinfecting lights on the market.
This new eco-friendly and non-toxic tool is great for cleaning your gadgets (keyboard, phones), your home (kitchen counter, dining table), your car (steering wheel and seats), or even the public surfaces that you simply can’t avoid touching (airline tray tables, shopping carts). It’s the perfect on-the-go tool for parents, college students, senior citizens, and airline personnel.
The Jacuzzi® UV Disinfecting Wand can be purchased directly from Clearlight for a retail price of $299 by visiting https://infraredsauna.com/uvc-wand/ and calling 1-800-798-1779.
The UV Wand charges fully in an hour and comes with safety goggles, gloves, and a carrying case. The UV Wand has been developed and assembled in the US and is 100% ozone and chemical-free. Additionally, Clearlight Infrared® offers a one-year warranty on their Jacuzzi® UV Disinfecting Wand purchases.
Their sauna technology has been in high demand since the pandemic has forced people to stay sheltered and look for ways to assess and improve their daily wellness routine.
“Being able to provide the public with technology that can aid in increasing people’s overall wellness without exposing them to unnecessary toxins is what makes us a leader in the infrared sauna industry,” said Bruce Weinberg, Clearlight’s Director of Marketing.
About Clearlight Infrared® – Makers of Jacuzzi® Saunas
Founded by a Chiropractic Physician, Dr. Raleigh Duncan, Clearlight Infrared® has been an industry leader for the past 20 years. Clearlight Infrared was the first to pioneer the Carbon/Ceramic infrared heaters capable of delivering a deeper, more penetrating infrared wavelength, along with the lowest EMF (electromagnetic fields) available on the market. Each Clearlight Infrared Sauna™ model is manufactured with the finest Grade-A Clear Western Red Canadian Cedar or hypoallergenic Basswood. Moreover, they are the only infrared sauna in the world to offer a full lifetime warranty for all their in-home models. To learn more, visit infraredsauna.com.
Jacuzzi® is a registered trademark of Jacuzzi Inc. and is used under a license agreement.
Clearlight Infrared of Berkeley, Calif., has taken inspiration from Murphy beds to produce one-person prototypes that can collapse from 4 feet wide to 2 feet, says company president Andy Kaps.
By Jen Murphy, March 9, 2021 at 1:00 pm ET
Helsinki’s Löyly complex has three saunas that accommodate 96 people and are linked by walkways to locker rooms, lounge areas and a restaurant. PHOTO: KUVATOIMISTO KUVIO OY
Saunas offer a medication-free way to relax and socialize, and recent studies show health benefits too: sitting in an enclosure where a wood stove or electric heater has pushed temperatures of 195 degrees or higher can ease chronic stress and muscle pain and lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and other serious ailments.
“Chronic stress leads to inflammation, poor sleep, high blood pressure,” Christopher Minson, a cardiovascular physiologist at the University of Oregon, says, adding that infrared saunas, which use light to heat the body, deliver similar benefits at lower temperatures. “When we go through heat therapy, we boost antioxidant activity in the body and enter a parasympathetic, or rest and digest state.”
Though saunas may be a mainstay of high-end gyms and spas, their space requirements and high cost—which can exceed $10,000—have put them beyond the reach of many Americans. A host of innovations, including electronic controls and space-saving designs, promise to make saunas more popular and easier to integrate into our daily routines.
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Thinking Small
German manufacturer Klafs designed a one-person sauna that with the push of a button collapses to the size of a bookcase. PHOTOS: KLAFS GMBH & CO. KG(2)
Some manufacturers are developing compact saunas to meet the needs of those who lack a backyard or basement big enough to hold a conventional home sauna. Klafs, a manufacturer in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, designed a one-person sauna that with the push of a button collapses to the size of a bookcase. When it goes on sale in the U.S. later this year, it is expected to retail for about $15,000.
Clearlight Infrared of Berkeley, Calif., has taken inspiration from Murphy beds to produce one-person prototypes that can collapse from 4 feet wide to 2 feet, says company president Andy Kaps. The company has no time frame yet to market the saunas, he says, as the cost would likely be 50% higher than a typical model.
Corey Smee, manager of Health Mate, a sauna maker in Buena Park, Calif., sees a trend toward even more compact saunas. His company’s $2,900 infrared half-sauna—essentially a chair within a red cedar box that encloses the legs and torso of a single person—has sold well during the pandemic. “You can rest your laptop on the top and Zoom while saunaing,” he says. “It’s perfect for a work-from-home lifestyle, and it’s mobile so it can be pushed around and easily stored.”
Greener Heat
Finland-based Harvia recently introduced a stove that uses a special air control system to cut particulate emissions. PHOTO: HARVIA
If the physical footprint of saunas is shrinking, so is their carbon footprint—with the development of low-emission stoves. Researchers in Finland estimate that sauna stoves are the nation’s biggest single source of fine particulate and black carbon emissions. Harvia, in Muurame, Finland, recently introduced a stove that uses a special air control system to cut particulate emissions by 20% and carbon emissions by 70%.
Another Finnish company, Tampere-based Lytefire, last year debuted what it calls the first zero-emissions sauna—a five-person enclosure that runs on solar energy. Located atop a 6,500-foot-peak at the ski resort of Heuberge in the Swiss Alps, the sauna was erected alongside a panel of 48 mirrors on a wooden platform that rotates to keep the mirrors facing the sun throughout the day so they can direct sunlight onto the sauna rocks. And Harvia is now working with Lytefire on the development of home saunas that use solar energy that can charge batteries to provide more consistent sauna stove heat, according to Harvia executive Päivi Juolahti.
Playing the Game
Sunlighten, a manufacturer in Overland Park, Kan., is making a sauna that can be controlled remotely via an app. PHOTO: SUNLIGHTEN
Some electric sauna heaters can be controlled remotely via an app or a voice assistant like Amazon’s Alexa so users can order up the heat even before they arrive home. Remote control is just part of a nascent high-tech makeover that sauna makers envision. “We have a patent out on technology that allows our app to interface with other devices, like your Garmin or Whoop,” says Aaron Zack, co-owner of Sunlighten, a manufacturer in Overland Park, Kan. “The idea is that an embedded glass control panel on the sauna will allow you to personalize your experience to settings like muscle recovery based on biomarkers such as heart rate and blood pressure.”
Mr. Zack also envisions the use of mobile notifications to remind users of sauna time and even gamifying the experience, with users awarded badges for fitting in a certain number of sauna sessions a week.
Hot Entertainment
Löyly, an 11,500-square-foot sauna complex on Helsinki’s waterfront, opened in 2016. PHOTO: KUVATOIMISTO KUVIO OY
In the U.S., sauna time is often viewed as a private experience—even though studies suggest that chatting with others during sauna sessions amplifies the health benefits, according to Dr. Minson, the University of Oregon physiologist. “Most Americans don’t think of the sauna as a place to socially interact in the way Europeans do,” he says.
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Europeans are taking sauna socializing to the next level. Finns can watch hockey games at Helsinki’s Hartwall Arena from a 20-person sauna skybox. Also in Helsinki is Löyly, an 11,500-square-foot pyramid-shaped sauna complex on the city’s waterfront that opened in 2016. Its three separate saunas accommodate 96 people and are linked by walkways to locker rooms, lounge areas and a restaurant. Anu Puustinen, co-founder of Avanto Architects, the Helsinki-based firm behind Löyly, says there is rising demand for such venues.
Another hot trend is Sauna Aufguss, which mixes high temperatures and live entertainment in which performers wave towels to circulate the steamy air. “The younger generation is really gravitating to Sauna Aufguss,” says Lasse Eriksen, development manager for Oslo-based Nordic Hotels & Resorts. “For 15 minutes you are entertained by a ballet dancer or musician. The heat and steam enhance the excitement of the performance and you get a good sweat in the process.”
Eriksen designed a 100-person, 700-square-foot sauna amphitheater that opened in 2018 at Farris Bad Resort in Larvik, Norway, and is now consulting on the first U.S. sauna amphitheater, set to open later this year in Las Vegas.
