About Home Sauna Tips

Home Sauna Tips is America’s longest-running home sauna blog. We have been writing about home saunas at this address since 2005 — longer than any other American sauna publication still running. We don’t sell saunas, heaters, or kits. We explain, in plain English, how Finns build and use saunas, translated for North American homes: the heat, the air, the wood, and the custom.

The library is organized the way a build actually unfolds — planning, structure, ventilation, heater, benches, and then the part that matters most: learning to use the room the way it was designed to be used. Culture pages sit beside construction pages on purpose; in the Finnish tradition they were never separate subjects.

Who writes this site

Articles are signed Saima Honkanen, the site’s editorial voice. Saima is a disclosed pen name, not a real individual — the full arrangement, including what the byline does and doesn’t claim, is on her page. Everything published under it is researched, sourced, and fact-checked by the site’s editorial team.

How guides are checked

Cultural claims trace to Finnish institutions first — Suomen Saunaseura (the Finnish Sauna Society), UNESCO’s listing of Finnish sauna culture, and Finland’s own cultural and language institutions — with Finnish-language sources preferred wherever they exist. Health claims trace to peer-reviewed research, cited on the page with the study design and its limits stated in plain language. Building guidance translates Finnish practice into North American materials and codes. Where the evidence is thin, the page says so. Our full standards live in the editorial policy.

Corrections

Every page shows its last-reviewed date. If you find an error, tell us via the contact page — corrections are made on the page itself and the reviewed date updated.