About Sauna Hats Guide

Sauna Hats Guide is a free reference about one small piece of sauna kit: the felt hat you wear on the top bench. It covers why the hat works, how to choose and wear one, how to look after it, and the sauna and banya customs around it.

Who runs this site

This guide is published by DIVELUX, the sauna hat brand behind diveluxsaunahat.com. DIVELUX Inc. is based in Irvine, California; its hats are felted and stitched by hand from 100% natural wool at a partner workshop in Ukraine, then shipped to customers from inside the US. We sell sauna hats, so we have a commercial interest in this subject, and we would rather say so plainly than hide it. When a guide mentions DIVELUX, it links to our store or Amazon listing.

What the guides cover

• Choosing a hat: materials, felt thickness, fit, shapes, price and gift ideas.
• Wearing and caring: hygiene, etiquette, long hair, hot tubs, and why the hat is worn dry.
• Sauna know-how: hot-room temperatures, Finnish sauna and Russian banya traditions, and why the air at head height is the hottest in the room.

How we write and check them

Each guide starts from questions people actually ask about sauna hats and from what we know first-hand about making and selling wool felt hats. Facts about wool, felt and heat come from well-established textile and sauna knowledge, and figures such as air temperatures are given as typical ranges rather than promises. We avoid medical claims: where heat and health meet, we describe what is commonly reported and keep it cautious. A few house rules apply to every page: a sauna hat is worn dry, a wool hat is washed by hand in cool water, and a hat that feels big is folded at the brim, never shrunk. Guides are revised when facts change, and the date at the top of each one shows its last update.

The hats we make

DIVELUX hats are 100% natural wool felt, about 4 to 5 mm thick, in a classic bell shape and a bucket style, seven colours in all. One size fits most adults, for heads up to 24 in (61 cm). They cost $21.99 with free US shipping and 30-day returns, and DIVELUX is the #1 Best Seller in Sauna Accessories on Amazon. If you care most about the material itself, our sister site Wool Sauna Hat goes deeper on wool and felt.

Contact and corrections

Found a mistake, or have a question a guide does not answer? Use the contact page on the DIVELUX store or write to diveluxstore@gmail.com. We fix corrections on the page itself.