Infrared or traditional sauna: which suits your home?
How the heat differs, where each one goes, power, running costs and the experience, side by side.
ZÖLSTICE Wellness, in partnership with Royal Tubs, and with Insignia Wellness for The Orb™.
ZÖLSTICE began with two people who were tired of seeing wellness sold cheap.
We met through the wellness industry, where between us we've spent more than 20 years around wellness products. Over that time we kept seeing the same thing: people spending serious money on products that looked good in photos and felt thin in real life. Walls that couldn't hold heat. Heaters that struggled. Finishes that gave up after a British winter or two.
We came together over a shared belief that it doesn't have to be that way. ZÖLSTICE is the result: a small collection of saunas we'd be proud to put in our own gardens, and the experience to help you choose, site and use one properly.
We don't think of a sauna as a box in the garden. It's a private wellness space: somewhere to warm up, switch off and come back to yourself, a few steps from your back door. So we help with more than the sale. We'll talk through where it should sit, how you'll use it and what might go around it, whether that's a patio, an outdoor shower or simply a bench to cool down on between rounds.
We use saunas ourselves, and we understand what regular heat therapy can mean, physically and mentally. For some people it's the way they unwind after training. For others it's the one part of the day without a screen, a notification or a to-do list. Either way, it should be easy to reach and a pleasure to use.
A sauna is a long-term investment, so we judge every product on what it will be like in year five, not on day one. We would rather sell you something built properly that lasts than something cheap that disappoints. That's what we mean by value for money.
Every sauna in our collection is carefully chosen and tested by us before we offer it. If it doesn't meet our standard, we don't sell it. It's also why our collection is small.
Our showroom is at Ash Tree Farm, Stoke Albany Road, Northamptonshire, NN14 2SP, open by appointment. Come and feel the timber, see the finish and ask us anything. Many of our saunas are built to order or tailored to each customer, so the models on display change from time to time. Book a visit, tell us which sauna you'd like to see, and we'll confirm what's on display before you travel.
ZÖLSTICE saunas are offered in partnership with Royal Tubs. Our first sauna, Solen Compact, pairs 45mm Thermowood walls with a Harvia heater (4kW as standard, or a 6kW upgrade) in a footprint of 167 × 120cm, designed for one or two people.

Every sauna we sell, from Solen Compact to Arden and The Orb™, is chosen to bring these opposites into balance at home.
Signature: Solen CompactTraditional outdoor saunas for the garden, from the two-person Solen Compact to Solen Plus for four to six.
Built to orderLarger glass-fronted saunas with a 10.8kW Harvia Legend heater, built to order in 6 to 10 weeks.
By Insignia WellnessCurved indoor infrared saunas for one to three people, from Insignia Wellness.
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