Do not despair if you inadvertently dripped wax from a candle on furniture, carpet or other interior item (or clothing). The spot can be easily removed without resorting to dry cleaning. In this material you will find invaluable tips on how to remove a stain from wax yourself from various kinds of surfaces.
In order to remove wax from the carpet, first try to remove paraffin as possible with your hands as possible. To do this, you can use the usual comb. With its help, it is easy to crush a stain of wax, and collect fragments manually.
In an effective way to remove the spot will be the following: first frozen wax with ice (for this, ice cubes, ice bags, dry ice), and then crush the bite and sprinkle. The remains can be frozen again, crushed and again.
It is important that the wax does not get wet during freezing, so the ice should be wrapped in polyethylene.
How to remove wax from tissue? To get started, cool this spot using the ice. To clean the wax, you can use, for example, a dumb knife for oil. The fabric, as a rule, remains a fat wax spot.
In order to get rid of it, you just need to iron the spot heated to the average temperature with an iron, having previously covered the fabric with paper wipes folded in several layers. Do not forget that it is recommended to stroke each fabric so as not to damage the fibers with a certain temperature.
If possible, for convenience it is better to iron the fabric on the ironing board. In this case, napkins should be laid not only on top of the fabric, but also under it so that the wax does not absorb into the ironing board. It is advisable to change paper napkins in the process of ironing, until all the wax is absorbed.
As a rule, this procedure allows you to completely remove the wax. However, one more problem may arise. If the candle was colored, the dye could leave the mark. The spot is excreted no more complicated than any other. Wash the fabric by adding the stain.
It is advisable to soak the spot with this stain -coir before washing for a while. If the fabric is not recommended to wash, the only way to get rid of the spot is dry cleaning.
The wax removal scheme from a wooden surface is identical: remove large pieces manually, and melt the small pieces and get wet with a napkin. The only warning: be careful not to scratch the surface.
