An infrared sauna offers many health benefits to just about every part of the body, and your skin is no exception. The deep-penetrating heat that infrared sauna offers improves blood flow and circulation, consequently boosting the health of your skin and allowing you to emerge rejuvenated with a youthful glow. Infrared saunas harness light to create heat. This heat penetrates the skin deep into muscle, tissue, and blood cells, producing a detoxifying sweat that rids the body of impurity within cells where toxins and harmful substances build up. The act of sweating helps your body purge itself of dirt, oil and other matters that build up within the skin, thus improving the health of your skin and its overall appearance.

When temperatures rise within the infrared sauna, and you begin your Hot Detox Yoga session, your blood circulation will improve. Blood begins to move more effectively from the internal regions of the body to peripheral parts of the body, namely the skin. Improved circulation aids the body in delivering oxygen to injured or damaged areas with high cell turnover. This mechanism can help the skin in many ways, perhaps most noticeably in the area of scar recovery. With blood flowing through the body in a more efficient manner, you can expect to see clearer, softer, and healthier-looking skin as a result.

A study published in ‘The Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy’ has shown that significant improvements in skin appearance can be realized after regular skin therapy using infrared technology. Participants within this study experienced a reduction in wrinkles and improved overall skin tone, including softness, smoothness, elasticity, clarity, and firmness. (1)

The warm light emitted by an infrared sauna works to clear skin pores that were previously blocked, allowing the sebaceous gland within the skin to function without obstruction. The sebaceous gland, which creates sebum that helps maintain the skin, can be unblocked through sweat induced by an infrared sauna, subsequently preventing acne from developing.  Moreover, regular saunas use can help control skin inflammation and promote rejuvenation of skin cells, minimizing the constant itch that is often associated with eczema and psoriasis.

If you’ve been wondering, “does a sauna clean your pores?” The short answer is yes! The heavy sweating induced by infrared light therapy has a cleansing effect on pores and glands, flushing toxins and impurities from within the skin. As a result, your skin will be less prone to acne, blackheads, and pimples.

Looking for a quickfire solution to aging? Consider infrared sauna for skin tightening; infrared light therapy will flush out toxins from your skin through sweat, improving tone, elasticity, and firmness of the skin, leaving you with a youthful glow. As a result of infrared light flushing out toxins from your skin, you’ll experience smoother and tighter skin with more room to breathe.

In addition, infrared saunas stimulate collagen and elastin production. Collagen and elastin will help plump and firm your skin, alleviating stretch marks and cellulite in the process. Expelling those dead skin cells from your body clears out the pores and stimulates healthy circulation.

According to a study published in the ‘Yonsei Medical Journal’ entitled ‘Effects of Infrared Radiation on Skin Photo-Aging and Pigmentation’, patients reported fair improvement in their skin tone and color after continued, regular treatment. The sweat exuded from the body as a result of infrared sauna treatment removes deeply embedded impurities, cleansing pores of toxins and expelling dead skin cells. A reduction in impurities, toxins and dead skin will bring color and life back to your skin, improving tone, texture, color, and elasticity. Clean, clear, and healthy skin will restore a natural glow to your skin’s overall appearance. (2)

Lastly, infrared saunas have the remarkable ability to speed up the wound healing process. This is because infrared light therapy accelerates cell regeneration, supports enhanced tissue growth, and has proven results in healing skin burns and scars. Our skin is responsible for protecting and regulating the body against and amidst harmful substances; if the skin is damaged its ability to perform these functions may become impaired and leave you vulnerable to various illnesses or bacteria. As such, the beneficial properties of infrared sauna for skin should be used as a mechanism of defense against harmful substances.

If these reasons aren’t enough to convince you, then come try a SOL SPA Hot Detox Yoga session in our HOTWORX infrared saunas and experience all of the skin benefits for yourself.

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^{(1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16414908/}

^{(2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687728/}

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Written By: Paige Stuart, VP of Spa Operations