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Home Sauna Accessories Enhance Your Enjoyment
Wed 06 Feb 2008 - 08:44
Home Sauna Accessories Enhance Your Enjoyment
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Kevin_Urban]Kevin Urban
When building or installing your own private home sauna, there are obviously some important considerations you'll need to consider. Before proceeding, you'll need to make the following crucial decisions:
What type of home sauna do you want to install? For instance, do you have the dedicated space for a full-sized cabin, or do you need a personal sauna that will be easily portable?
Will your sauna be indoors or outside?
What heat source will you be using for your home steam sauna? Some common options are far infrared heat, wood stoves, gas, and electric.
What type of sauna design will meet your needs? Will you be the sole user, or will the sauna need to accommodate several people? Do you want to include a shower or separate changing area?
Will you be building your sauna yourself from scratch, using a modular sauna kit, or purchasing pre-cut sauna materials?
Once you've answered these basic questions and begun the process of building your home sauna, you might want to consider supplementing it with some convenient sauna accessories to enhance the experience. You'll find a host of useful add-on items that can help you get the most out of your therapeutic heat sessions. Below, we've compiled a listing of some of the most popular.
Home Sauna Accessories
Bucket and ladle: One of the consummate aspects of a steam sauna is the act of pouring hot water over sauna stones to create humidity-rich vapors. When choosing a sauna bucket and dipper for this procedure, be sure to choose a moisture-resistant material.
Stereo and CD player: Enjoy your favorite music or talk radio shows during sauna sessions with a moisture-proof audio component.
Vapor-proof lighting: Enhance your sauna with upgraded home interior lighting. You may even want to invest in dimming lights.
Timers: Although many pre-fab saunas for home installations come with a timer, you might consider upgrading to a digital version.
Aromatherapy oils: In recent years, it's become a popular practice to incorporate essential oils into sauna sessions, either by adding a few drops of fragrance to the water in the sauna bucket or by using aromatic dispensers. Combining therapeutic scents with sauna heat has been linked to a host of mood enhancements and health benefits. Try adding a little lavender to help reduce the stress from a long, hard day, or achieve sharper concentration levels with a bit of ginger. Another popular sauna fragrance is birch, a nod to the birch twigs often used in traditional Finnish saunas.
Thermometer: Most home sauna kits come equipped with one, but if you're building your own unit from scratch, you'll need to invest in a reliable sauna thermometer to ensure that your unit is operating at a safe heat level.
Clocks: If your sauna timer doesn't come equipped with one, you'll need to invest in a moisture-resistant clock to keep track of the duration of your sessions. This is an absolute necessity to ensure your safety and prevent overheating.
Infrared sauna accessories: Rising in popularity in recent years, home infrared saunas can be enhanced with a variety of modern add-ons, including headrests, molded plastic flooring, and fog-resistant mirrors.
Once you've made the larger investment in a sauna, these supplemental sauna accessories should be relatively inexpensive. You can purchase them at any sauna store, or from a large variety of online retailers. Although not all of them are required, they can go a long way toward enhancing your enjoyment of your home sauna.
About the Author:
Kevin Urban is the editor for Sauna-Talk.com, a consumer guide to [http://www.sauna-talk.com/ ]home saunas and DIY kits. Read about the health benefits of [http://www.sauna-talk.com/steam-saunas.html ]steam saunas and build your own [http://www.sauna-talk.com/outdoor-saunas.html ]outdoor sauna with a pre-fab kit.
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