 Behind me, I have the Sunstream Evolve 20 Fire and Fruits Sauna. This is a really good sauna. So it comes with this remote and I can change the colors. And they do have that good Cedar Smelt, which I love. Hey, it's Alex here from AlexFurgus.com. Behind me, I have the Sunstream Evolve 20 Fire and Fruits Sauna. This is a two man sauna and I've been using it for the last three months now. So in this video, I'm going to do a comprehensive review of this sauna. I'm going to share my insights and feedback and experiences from the sauna. Also, you're going to look at some of the features of the sauna such as the materials used, wavelength submitted, we're going to look at price, warranty, accessories. Yeah, it's going to be everything. Um, if you'd prefer to read, head over to AlexFurgus.com. As I have written the comprehensive article reviewing the sauna, including lots of photos and a lot more details. So I'll put a link to that below. Otherwise, be sure to hang around for the next 10 minutes or so as we take a good look at this rather unheard of, not that common sauna. And, um, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. If you do watch this video, you'll be pleasantly surprised because you may find another sauna to add to your potential shopping list. All right. So first things first, let's have a look at the sauna. It is the Evolve 20, which means it is a two man sauna. I'm sorry. I can't get a bit of camera angle. I'm a little bit cramped for space here because of the clear light sauna, but hopefully you can get a pretty good look at what the loud is like. Um, you can see the panels inside come up to about shoulder height. If we open up the sauna inside, you can see there's actually a massive heater on the front, which is very rare for, um, fire, fire and fruit sauna companies. Usually they have nothing and if they do, it'll be a thin sauna, uh, thin infrared panel. So that's cool. There are also panels on the floor, which is great. And then on the back of the sea. So you have a full 360 degree, uh, heater panel placement, which is great. The sauna itself is made out of basewood. So this sauna, the Evolve 20 has a full glass front. So it has a glass door and obviously the heater panel here is, is grayed out, but then you'll, you also have these two sheets of glass on the side here. So it actually looks really cool. Um, from a distance, unfortunately, it's very hard for me to get a shot. Now, if you decide to purchase a Sunstream Evolve sauna, you'll be pleasantly surprised to find that there's a bunch of accessories that come free included in the price. Uh, we get this neat little aroma therapy unit, which, um, just looks like a little half shot glass. And, uh, a little holder for it, and that simply hangs on the wooden frame, uh, like so. And the idea is you put some of your favorite essential oils in there and, um, that will burn off with the heat and help. The cool thing is these, uh, seats back supports. I don't know what they're called. Back rest. Yeah, back rest. Comes with two of them. They both look the same. Just to show this to, uh, they are cedar wood. So that's slightly different color to the base wood here. And they do have, um, they good cedar smell, which I love. So I have one against that wall, one against the back, and then I can sit and then I can sit in there with my feet up and I'm not coming into contact with any of the panels. Uh, next is this cup holder. And again, some of these, like I said, some of these things you might be like, oh, you know, it's the gimmicky or not, or it's not worth much. But I don't want to see, um, this is very, very useful. Now, um, the idea is it comes with some screws and you just screw it in wherever you want. And then once it's in place, you can rest your cup and all your drink bottle in like so. The towel, uh, Sunstream Infrared Saunas towel, which is cool. I mean, they didn't have to do that. Um, and it's not going to be the difference between buying this, this sauna or not, but it is a nice little add-on and it will definitely come in handy. A sauna hat also labeled with the Sunstream sauna logo. And it also comes with a brush, which you can use to help with blood flow when you're in the sauna. So all of that is included in the price, which I think is, is, is awesome. I mean, there's a lot of value there. Um, and if you bought a sauna, it didn't come with all those things and then you had to go out and buy each thing or build them or, you know, all that sort of stuff adds up, especially the backrest. Um, so big, big thumbs up, double thumbs up there for, um, Sunstream Saunas on that front. One of the first things I want to talk about is the materials used in the sauna. So the sauna is made up of 100% basewood, buswood, basewood. I'm not too sure how you pronounce it, but that's what it's made with. Now, um, why do I mention 100%? Well, some other saunas, including very popular well-named premium, uh, infrared saunas claim to use 100% or exclusive seed or whatever timber it is. But then when you have a look on the, on the roof or internal, um, walls, you actually find they use, uh, plywood and, uh, synthetic processed woods, which can, um, often do contain VOCs, formaldehyde and other potential toxins. Now this sauna, Sunstream, they only use basewood or base, buswood, I don't know how to pronounce it, which is great. And I've got up on the ceiling. I'll show you soon. There is basewood panels at the top underneath on the side, all these safety rails, all safe quality toxin-free timber, which is great. Um, the only thing that's not basewood is the becarus, which I'll show, uh, soon. And I think that, that made I have seen it. So that's fine. Now, why is this an issue? Well, why could this be an issue? If you're sitting inside a sauna, chances are you're doing it for health, right? You purchase a sauna for the health benefits. You use the sauna for health benefits, which is great. Now, saunas get hot. If the materials inside were there, it is plastics or timbers or these process timbers like, um, plywood and particle board. The glues, the chemicals that I've used, they'll use to make these materials can off gas. So if you're sitting in a confined space with a door shut and you're heating it, these materials can off gas pretty much putting out these chemicals into the air. And now, of course, you're sitting in this room for this box for 20, 30, 40 minutes. You're going to breathe these chemicals in and absorb them. And I've written an article on how toxins can literally cause you to gain fat and the link to all sorts of health issues. I'll put a link to that in the show notes below. You can go to elixirist.com for more. So it's great knowing that the sauna is made 100% from natural wood, but not only natural wood, it's made from base wood. But if you hit to the wood database website, which is a really great website, by the way, they'll talk about, uh, they look at allergy and toxicity levels of various woods. Now out of all the common, um, sauna woods, so you have Cedar, you have base wood, you have Hemlock, um, there's a few others out there. This base wood actually comes out as the best. It is perpetually free of any, um, allergens and there are no toxicity issues. Now, Sunstream have used a glue. I forget the name. It's in my blog at elixirist.com, but this glue is a food grade glue. It's been approved by the FDA for use and, um, food grade products. All right, let's take a quick look up top to see what's on the top of the sauna. As you can see there, it is the same base wood material, quick comparison to the clear light sauna I have over here. And you can see it's made out of particle board. All right, so now I want to talk about the EMF levels emitted from this Sunstream sauna. Now, if you go to the Sunstream website, Sunstream.com or infraredsaunas.co.nz for those that are in New Zealand or Australia, you will see that the manufacturer states that their saunas are virtually free of any EMF and ELF radiation, which is a big claim, especially as saunas are well known to have high EMF readings. I mean, people talk about sitting inside some of these cheap infrared saunas you see on the market and effectively microwaving themselves. And again, if you're buying a sauna to use something in the name of health, you don't want to be sitting inside something that is radiating the body and causing another stress. But in that shell, the manufacturer was correct. There is virtually no EMF or ELF output from the sauna. And I tested that at half an inch from the panels, pretty much assuming I was sitting right next to the panels, which of course is what you do. I tested for microwave, magnetic field, and electric field, and I have this set to very strict building biology standards. And that means every reading will get a green, a yellow or a red green being safe, yellow being, you know, dangerous, red being extremely dangerous. Now, for all three readings, microwave, electric and magnetic, the quantity that stayed in the green zone, which means that this sauna is 100% safe from an EMF and ELF point of view. Next up, let's look at the wavelength. So infrared saunas primarily use what's called far infrared to heat the body to work. That's how they work. All right, these heated panels behind me take electricity and they convert that into far infrared light waves. That far infrared ray penetrates the body causes a therapeutic sweat effect, heats the body tissues and, you know, you get all the good things from infrared saunas as a result. And I've written an article on that as well. So you can go over to AlexFugus.com to check that out. I'll put links to all these articles below. What's happened in the infrared sauna space is that some saunas are coming out now with full spectrum saunas. And these saunas use panels or add on accessories, lights, heaters that also emit near and mid infrared rays. Now there is some science showing that this can be beneficial, but there's also some science showing that the near infrared rays in particular can in fact be damaging when it's emitted in high levels in a high heat environment, which is exactly what you're doing in a sauna. So I'm a big fan of near infrared, I'm a big fan of red light and I'm also a big fan of far infrared. In fact, I've written article on near infrared, the benefits of near infrared light. However, the benefits are quite particular that around certain wavelengths such as 850 nanometers and exclusively the science looks exclusively at that wavelength, not the spectrum of wavelengths. And again, it doesn't look at heat. So to reap the benefits of near infrared light, I actually use a near infrared panel that uses LEDs instead of carbon or ceramic or incandescent bulbs. And Sunstream, what Sunstream have decided to do, because they've looked at the same research and they'll figure out the same things that I have and they've come to the same conclusion. Fine infrared is very, very powerful for health, healing, sweat, detoxification. Near infrared also has therapeutic benefits, but when you combine the two, there are potential issues. So what they've done is that the evolves on us. What I'm sitting in right now emits a fine infrared rays with a little bit of mid and zero near infrared. Now, some people will see this and think, oh, well, I want the full spectrum sauna because that has more rays, you know, it has the near infrared as well, but they don't see the full picture. They don't see the story with the near infrared issues. But like I said, near infrared rays do have some benefits. So what Sunstream have have developed is a dedicated evolve light therapy light. Now that comes with a panel about Yabek and it uses LED lights and it hangs on the outside of the sauna. So you can use that one of the sauna, the evolve sauna is heating up and then you can get the benefits of near infrared light from a safe LED panel and then you enter the sauna and get the benefits of fire for it. I guess what I'm saying is to get the best results from fire for it near for it, you should separate them. Don't try to combine them. As soon as you try to combine them, the science gets a little bit messy. And you know, when you're spending thousands of dollars, you want to get something that you know is going to be safe and is going to work well. Behind me, you can see the big heater panel on my right. You can see another panel on my left, a third panel. Now in front of me, you also see a big panel, which pretty much goes down to my ankles and comes up to say chest height. That's the 360 degree set up, which is which is pretty cool and it's quite a route to be honest and that infrared sauna market. But there's more below me. You see the panel on the floor. Let's radiate and heat up and then you see the panel on the back of the bench seat. That shining onto the back of my legs. So you're getting exposure from all angles pretty much everything except for head down, which you don't really want. You know top down and I explain why and much more detail in my written review over at AlexFegers.com. So go check that out. Likewise with all the stuff around Wavelengths and AMF, AlexFegers.com. I'll put links to the forward and review over there. So yeah, I highly recommend checking that out if you're serious about buying one of these saunas. But the great thing about this arrangement is you can be sitting in the sauna and you're getting hit from the left, the front, the right behind you and bottom up and click in the back of your legs. And like I said, not many saunas do that even better. As you'll notice that the sauna the heater panels and you go to about shoulder height in front of me, it's about chest height. All right. Another thing to remember is when you when you get in an infrared sauna, you're not trying to heat the air temperature. It's not an environment, ambient air temperature heat that you're looking for. And that's what dry saunas do. All right when you get in and you're like this is hot and you sweat as a result, infrared saunas work differently. You're actually looking to get maximal penetration from the infrared race and you want to get maximum maximum maximum penetrate maximum exposure from these infrared rays onto the body, which is why this whole 360 degree setup is actually really good because if you only had panels on the side and behind you, you're missing out that whole entire front plane. Another thing I should mention about the heater panels in the Suntrim sauna is that they use what's called nano carbon technology. Now a lot of infrared saunas use carbon heaters. Some use ceramic. Some use incandescent halogen, all sorts of technologies based on my experiences with saunas and the research I've done. Carbon heaters are the best. So this is great that I've got this. But the nano carbon heaters are even better. And again, I don't understand like the electrical engineering side of things that's going into it, but I do know as a result their EMF levels are virtually zero and from an output point of view, you sweat a lot. Another cool feature that this sauna has is you can actually remove these wooden protection, protect wooden slap protectors. This removable slap feature comes in handy when you want to clean the bottom sauna panel because I don't know if you can see it, but that's quite good. I haven't cleaned that for two or three sessions. No, I'm not super grubby. I was actually just waiting to show you this review. So I can pull that up, wipe that down after the sauna's cooled down. And you're back to a nice clean panel. All right. Now I want to talk about layout, size and layout. So this is a two man sauna. That means you can fit two people side by side. I mean, you could get three, but it'll be quite squishy. Two man sauna. Now there are benefits of getting a smaller sauna. I know you have anything as long as you think, well, let's get the biggest one that I can afford. But the benefits of getting a smaller, smaller sauna include a smaller price. Obviously, it's much, much cheaper to buy a smaller sauna, less energy to heat. The bigger the sauna, the more heat is and more electricity cost, the more it's going to cost to run. It's quicker to heat up the smaller the sauna by getting within a few minutes. If you want to get into a hot environment, you know, it's going to be a lot faster. And a smaller footprint. You know, maybe you can find on space and you don't have a big garage or a spare room. So don't always rush to to buy in the biggest sauna possible. I mean, sure, it would be nice having a massive one if you can afford it, but most people don't need them. And in fact, I've had my three man sauna for a couple years and I've had this for a few months. And there's only been one or two times when I've had multiple people like myself and someone else in the sauna. I'd say 95% of the time it's just me. Now, if you're in here on your own, this gives you multiple options. You can just leave it there as a bench. You know, you put your paper on there or a bottle or you can do this. Put it into the corner and stretch out like so. Now, all of a sudden I'm in a two man sauna but I can stretch out. I'm 5'10. What's that? A meter 78 and I can lean it. Lean back in the corner. My legs are straight. I'm relaxed. I also had this back roast behind me for a little bit extra space. You can remove that. So now I want to look at the features of this sauna. So it's a pretty simple. You get in, you turn the mind, you set the temperature and you start sweating. It's not really too much to think about. And the same is true for this sauna. If I show you the control panel, there's rather straight forward. Hit power. Time it comes on. You set how long you want the sauna to run for plus or minus is and then the temperature 65 degrees Celsius being maximum. You can turn the light on which I should have done before. Sorry, makes it a bit easier to see or you can turn it off. And this sauna, the Sunstream sauna also has an intensity setting which is pretty cool. I've never thought about this function in other saunas, but it is rather handy. So you can go 50% intensity, 100% 75. What are the other features in the sauna? Above me, you can see two speakers. These are Kenwood speakers. They're actually really good speakers. A lot of saunas infrared saunas will just use cheap the cheaper speakers they can get. I mean, in all honesty, you're not having a party in the sauna. You know, you're not, you know, you're not looking for a speaker that's going to provide music for a big living room or something. You only want sound in a small space, but hey, you want decent sound, right? So this one is this speaker is really good, which is great. I've already mentioned the intensity on the control panel. There's nothing really else to mention on that front. They do have Bluetooth connectivity for the speakers. So that's a simple function of getting your phone out, finding the device syncing and then you play your music or your videos through the speakers. Very easy. You can disable that Bluetooth if you don't want to use it at all, which is great. So it comes with this remote, which has various options and various colors on it. And then above me is the LED unit. So I can turn that on and I can change the colors like so. Now it looks like I am having a party in here, right? Um, and you can even change the brightness. So I can go really bright or I can go quite dull and you can go program settings and it will alternate between colors. You can do all sorts of stuff. Now, I've always thought they're a little bit gimmicky, but I found this actually has its benefits because the light in this sauna is quite bright. Now, I often use my sauna in the evening and I don't know if you know about blue light, blue light and how it impacts melatonin and stuff. I'll put an article below if you want to read more about that. But getting into a bright sauna can be a bit stimulating, right? So you turn the light off, but of course, if it's nighttime, it's quite dark in here. Now this chroma therapy or color therapy unit is actually pretty cool because I can turn it on and set it on like red or amber and I know I'm not suppressing melatonin. It's a nice relaxing color. I often find these things have reasonably high flicker rates. Now I've written out of one flicker everything you need to know about flicker and how light flicker in health. I've tested some in the past and yet the flicker rates are quite high. That can be a stressor to the body can cause, you know, headaches and whatnot. I've never noticed anything with this going on, but you may see on the screen I can see it on my little preview screen here. How there's a light line coming down as soon as I turn that off it will disappear. So that's something to do with the frequency fluctuation of that light. All right, so we're coming to the business end of this review. That means we talk about price. So this Sunstream Evolve 20 two man sauna with ultra low EMF made with non-toxic wood with amazing panel set up 360 degree panel set up that cost just under $4,000 US US dollars. All right, which is pretty good price considering what you're getting because you also get all those accessories. You also get lifetime warranty, which is incredible when you stop and think about it. You know, there's a warranty on this forever, which is amazing. Shipping is dependent dependent on where you live. They have depots in USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. But you may have to pay a shipping fee depending if you're outside the big cities and the big hubs, but there's something you can find out over at Sunstream Saunas.com. So three thousand three thousand nine hundred I think it was for this particular sauna. Now, given that this is something that you know, I'm going to use a couple of times a week, hopefully for a very long time. I mean, if you work it out on a session per use basis, you know, it's very easy to justify that expense. But I guess if you're watching this, you're not you're not thinking should I spend the money on a sauna or not? You're probably coming into this thinking should I buy this brand or that brand or another brand, right? So obviously this isn't a comparison guide. I do have an infrared sauna by a guide video an article so you can check them out if you do want to find out more about Saunas and which one's the best. For you. Otherwise, just leave a comment below or hit over to my site and send me an email. But yeah, that's I guess what you need to know. I think this is good value for what you get, especially when you do compare it to some of the other brands. What are my thoughts with this evolve sauna? Pretty much. I think it's amazing. Like seriously, it's it's really good value. It takes all the boxes from a health point of view. It looks great. It works. You know, you sweat amazing big time in here. It's incredible how fast you sweat. I haven't had any issues with technical side of things. There was one little humming sound that I had, which I found I think was an issue with my house unit, but that's all being resolved. There was one thing that I don't like and that is how the control unit is inside in the back corner with my clear light sauna. It is on the external. You know, you can access it from outside as well as inside. So you can walk in and just turn it on and walk out of the room and come back 20 minutes later. Now with this one, I have to walk in, open the door, reach and turn it on. I know it's not a big thing, but I don't know that if I had to be picky, I guess that would be the one little downside, I guess of this sauna. And check out all those articles over at alkswift.com. I'll put links to them all below. This heaps is an infrared sauna by his guide. There's the EMF video for this sauna. There's going to be my head-to-head comparison clear light with the sunscreen. Red light therapy articles, everything. All right. So everything I talked about and I never talked about a lot of stuff. There's my voice. My mouth is going dry. So it has been a long one. I apologize. But that's the end. And if you do have questions, leave them below. Otherwise, head over to alkswift.com. I'm going to sign out. Be sure to give me a thumbs up, subscribe and do all that cool stuff. I really do appreciate it. I promise. And yeah, if you get a sauna, let me know what you think of it. Leave a comment or if you have one. I'm curious. Bye.