Many people first discover the joy of sauna bathing in a spa or a health club. Others may be introduced to the pleasures of the sauna by friends who already own their own traditional Finnish or far infrared sauna. However a person may experience a sauna bath for the first time and however wonderfully relaxing or invigorating that experience may be, it simply does not compare with the delight of being a home sauna owner.

With a commercial sauna or a residential sauna that belongs to a friend, you can never be sure of its availability, what other people have been using it, how clean the sauna is, or how properly it is being maintained. You also have only so much control over the sauna