Clearlight Saunas Review: They Have the Best EMF Number in the Category and Do Not Show It

Every Clearlight cabin says Low EMF on its product page. Not one of them publishes a number. We checked all eleven. Not a milligauss reading, not a measurement distance, not even the word milligauss.

Clearlight does have a number, and it is the best one in this category. It is just not where anyone shopping would find it.

We do not sell Clearlight. We sell 26 full spectrum cabins from other manufacturers, and our own suppliers come out of this comparison worse than they do.

The number, and why it is the strongest in the category

On their buyer's guide page, Clearlight states an average EMF level of less than 1 milligauss, tested directly on the heater.

That last phrase is the whole thing. An EMF reading falls off sharply as you move away from the source, so a figure means nothing without the distance it was taken at. Directly on the heater is the most conservative position anyone can measure from. Every inch of distance produces a lower, friendlier number.

Now compare that with what our own suppliers do. We read 39 manufacturer spec sheets covering cabins we sell. Some state EMF at 2 to 3 inches from the panel and some at 6 to 8, which are not comparable readings. Nine of those 39 sheets give two different measurement distances for the same sauna, in two rows of the same table.

Clearlight's disclosure is better than what our suppliers state, and we are not going to soften that. They picked the position that flatters them least.

So why can nobody find it

Because it is on a guide page, not on a product page. If you open the Sanctuary 2 listing, you get Low EMF as an adjective, alongside the wood species, the amperage and the dimensions. The measurement that would let you check the adjective is two clicks away in a different section of the site.

This is the third brand we have reviewed with the same shape. Sun Home commissioned two independent labs and put the results on zero of their 24 product pages. HigherDose lists Electrical Field: Low EMF in a spec table with no figure at all. The disclosure lives on the marketing pages and the product page carries the adjective.

If you are shopping Clearlight, read the buyer's guide before you read any product page, then ask their team in writing whether that figure applies to the model you want and at what distance it was taken for that unit. A single average across a range is not a spec for one cabin.

They will not tell you the price

All eleven cabins gate it. Every one carries a Get Pricing button and not one has an Add to Cart. The Sanctuary 2 page alone has seven Get Pricing calls to action.

What they publish instead is money that is not a price. A Save $500 discount. A $999 down deposit. Financing from $146 per month. Accessories say Add During Your Sauna Consultation where a price would go.

That it is deliberate rather than technical is easy to establish: seven of their fifteen accessory pages do have an Add to Cart. Not one cabin does. The store can take money. It just will not take it for a sauna without a conversation first.

We could estimate the price from the deposit and the monthly payment, and we are not going to. Those two figures appear in different financing programmes on the same page, so multiplying them would be our arithmetic wearing their number. If we published that and it was wrong, we would be doing the thing this article criticises.

What we can tell you is ours. Our full spectrum cabins run $2,699 to $9,999, median $4,847, on the page, before you speak to anyone.

Four companies, four different warranties

This is the third review in which the same two words mean something different, so it is worth setting the four side by side.

• Clearlight is a manufacturer. Their own words: they own and operate their manufacturing facility. Lifetime residential, five years commercial. A company standing behind a thing it built.
• Sun Home is also a manufacturer. Lifetime, on most models, and we could not determine which models are excluded.
• Almost Heaven is owned by Harvia. Lifetime on the sauna room, and one year on the heating elements inside it.
• We are a retailer. A retailer cannot warrant something it did not build. What you get from us is the manufacturer's term, and our job is to tell you what that term is before you pay.

Across the heater brands we sell, the pattern is consistent and it is not flattering. HUUM offers five years limited with the heating elements excluded outright. Narvi covers the stove for two years and the resistors for twelve months. In every case the part most likely to fail carries the shortest term or none at all. Sunlighten adds a fifth position, and it is the only one of the five printed on the product page: seven years.

Who should buy Clearlight

Someone who wants a manufacturer-built cabin with the most conservative EMF disclosure in the category and does not mind a sales conversation to find out what it costs. Both of those are real advantages if the consultation suits how you buy.

Someone who wants to compare four cabins on a Saturday afternoon without giving anyone their phone number will find this frustrating, and that is a legitimate reason to shop elsewhere. It is also why we publish a price on all 673 products we sell.

Either way, ask the question this article is built on. What is the mG figure, what distance was it measured at, who measured it, and when? Clearlight can answer the first two better than almost anyone. Most of the industry, ours included, cannot answer all four. Asking it costs nothing and it tells you immediately whether a company tested its product or simply wrote an adjective on a page.