{"product_id":"sauna-hat","title":"100% Wool Sauna Hat","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA wool felt hat for the sauna, made in Lithuania.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAmericans think these are a joke. Lithuanians and Russians have worn them for well over a century, and the reason becomes obvious a few minutes into a hot sauna: heat rises, your head is the highest thing in the room, and your scalp and ears cook before the rest of you does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFelt insulates. A hat keeps your head cooler than the air around it, which means you last longer on the top bench and come out feeling good rather than lightheaded. It is the cheapest thing you can do to make a sauna better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWool also keeps working when it is damp, which matters in a room where everything is wet within ten minutes. Moisture goes into the fiber itself rather than displacing the air trapped between fibers. Cotton goes flat. Synthetic felt is plastic, and we would rather not wear plastic on our heads next to a hot stove.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat \"wool felt\" usually means\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFelt is easy to adulterate, and almost nobody lists what is in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA large share of the wool felt sauna hats sold online are a wool-polyester blend. Some are acrylic craft felt with no wool in them at all. You cannot tell by looking, and the listings rarely say.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOurs is 100% wool felt, 4 to 6 mm thick. The hanging loop is the same wool. The sewing thread is polyester, and we will come back to that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNo dyes. No bleach. The color is the color the sheep were.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAnd no mothproofing\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMost wool you buy has been treated against moths. It is invisible, it is applied in the dye bath by whoever runs the dye bath, and almost nobody has to tell you about it. Ours has not been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is also why our hat smells like wool. Heavily processed wool does not. If yours arrives smelling faintly of a sheep, that is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe thread\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCotton sewing thread starts at order of 10,000 pieces, which is beyond our current size. Another mill told us linen thread will not survive their sewing machines, and cotton will not hold the seams. So the hat is sewn with polyester thread, for now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSewing thread is legally exempt from fiber content labeling in both the United States and the European Union, so nobody would have made us tell you. We are telling you because we think it's the right thing to do.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brinna","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49532267462883,"sku":"Sauna_Hat","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8388\/2979\/files\/Sauna_hat_model.jpg?v=1791664407","url":"https:\/\/brinnasauna.com\/products\/sauna-hat","provider":"Brinna","version":"1.0","type":"link"}