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Infrared heaters are heaters that warm up objects as opposed to the air around them. The end result is that you're warmer faster.
Infrared heaters use infrared light as a approach to heating. The reason is that light travels in wavelengths. The sun emits infrared light as well as ultraviolet light. Both of these sources produce heat or are in essence actual heat. Infrared light accounts for up to 50 % of the heat emitted by the sun. Infrared heaters make the same type of light.
The principle behind this heating mechanism is that through infrared wavelengths, they travel or beam through objects warming them much faster than the usual traditional heater. This is because a traditional heater merely heats the air around objects rather than the object itself.
The body's temperature at any time is generally around 98.6. Naturally, once the temperature from the air around the body does not sustain your body's temperature, your body starts shivering in order to create more heat from within.
Also, colder air means dryer air because of less moisture. Less moisture in mid-air means less moisture on the skin allowing heat to leave the body. Colder air therefore causes the body for cooling off more quickly. For this reason people feel hotter in humid weather--their body heat can't be released in the body properly. Your body, in cold temperatures, has to heat itself.
It's not the traditional heater that really heats up your body. There is a certain supply of convection of heat from the air to the skin, however the process is slow as the heat penetrates layer by layer and into the muscles. Heat within the body dissipates rather quickly to efficiently heat within this method. Infrared wavelengths penetrate organic substances, just like your body, providing a far more effective heat source.
Instead of feeling intense heat externally the body slowly working its means by with a traditional heater, you are feeling comfortable on the surface of the body while feeling warm deep inside the body with infrared heaters.
Generally people know that hot air rises, although not so with infrared heaters. This is because the infrared light waves travel and reflect from surfaces, including moisture within the air, keeping a consistent "feel" through the room. In the case of utilizing a traditional heater, the hot air rises towards the ceiling causing cold air to flow downwards.
Additionally, heat quickly dissipates in the house. The standard heater keeps warming up the environment, it rises, simultaneously causing cold air to circulate towards the floor, and also the hot air at ceiling-level quickly leaves the house.
Infrared light, since it is like visible light, bounces off objects in a similar manner. Infrared light disperses from its source emanating and reflecting off of inorganic substances, e.g. the ceiling of your house, bouncing the sunshine waves inside the house. For this reason traditional heaters aren't efficient at heating the home and why infrared heaters are. This is also why infrared heaters tend to be more economical than traditional heaters.
