Environmental Policy

Dr. David Suzuki, Author, Broadcaster and Founder of the David Suzuki Foundation
"There is nowhere on earth where we cannot measure pollution from human industry."

     We support the philosophy of the Small Footprint. It’s simple: The closer you shop to home the less damage you do to the environment. SaunaRay is made in Ontario from Ontario wood. We guarantee that we do not import our saunas from China. Many imported products advertise “assembled in Canada” or “Made with Canadian Wood” or “sold by a Canadian Company” because they know people prefer to buy something made in Canada. But these are all trick-phrases designed to distract you from the fact that the product is actually being made offshore.

SaunaRay is Made In Canada. Here’s why...
     When Canadian wood is shipped thousands of miles across the Pacific it burns unnecessary fossil fuels that pollute the global environment. This is proven to be shrinking the polar ice caps. This is something people care about. Stopping global trade is insurmountable and not a viale solution for an individual. But one of the few things we can do about it is Buy Locally. It has an impact and will continue to for decades. When a foreign made product is constructed with “All Canadian Wood” it’s even worse for the environment. When that completed product is shipped back to North America it burns even more fossil fuels. By the time it gets to your home the pieces have traveled the distance of the Circumference of the Earth! Exposure to fossil fuel pollution is why many people are forced to purchase a far infrared sauna in the first place - to detoxify. It makes no sense to create more pollution when shopping for a solution.

SaunaRay is Made in Ontario and uses only trees grown in Ontario
      We exclusively use Ontario-grown Basswood which was selected because it is non-allergenic and qualifies for what we believe to be the only toxin-free sauna on the planet. But Basswood is also an environmentally sensitive choice. It matures in only seven years and therefore is considered a sustainable wood. One of the main tenets of Sustainable Development is to use materials that can be renewed before the life span of the product is over. SaunaRay units will last for decades and the Basswood can be renewed four, five, maybe even six times before the life span of your unit has been reached. This means you Leave a Small Footprint when you buy a SaunaRay.

Canadian Cedar is not used by SaunaRay due to its natural toxicity. It contains a neurotoxin in the oil that kills moths and naturally stresses the human immune system. Doctors will not use it in their practices because too many
people are allergic or sensitive to it. Western Red Cedar is often more than one thousand years old when it is “harvested” in order to attain that perfect knot-free board. These majestic trees are cut from magical forests on the west coast of Canada leaving a barren landscape unrecognizable as the forest that once stood there.  This is why SaunaRay guarantees you only toxin free Ontario wood. All the time. Every time. It is another way to show our customers that we care about you, and about the environment in which we all live. SaunaRay has enlisted itself in the Nature Challenge designed by the Suzuki Foundation. We donated time from our marketing team to help outlaw cosmetic pesticides in the town of Collingwood, Ontario where our factory is. We support meat free eating once per week. We shop at our local organic food market all summer long. We built our factory within 5 minutes of our home. We encourage you to take the “Nature Challenge” and do one small thing to help our planet to detoxify.

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