How do you remove wax from fabric?

Question

After a dinner party, I noticed that the candles had dripped onto my tablecloth. How can I remove the wax?

Answer 1

Step1

Put the fabric into the freezer until the wax is hard and brittle

Step2

Remove the fabric from the freezer and chip the wax off

Step3

Put a paper towel over the stain and iron with a dry iron; you will notice that the towel becomes stained, so replace as it soaks up the wax

Step4

Clean any remaining stain with a spot stain remover or laundry stick and wash as usual

Answer 2

Put some ice on it until it hardens, then peel of as mush as you can with your hands. If there's anymore left scrap it with the dull side of a butter knife. Then launder

Answer 3

There are a few different ways to fix this:

1.  Rub and ice cube on it and follow the directions as listed by others above.

2.  Use a paper towel and a hot iron.  While ironing the paper towel over the part of the tablecloth that has wax on it - the paper towel fibers will pull the wax away from the cloth and after a few tries, your tablecloth should be wax-free.

3.  Gold Canyon has a liquid wax remover that is amazing!  You could give it a try.

HTH, :)

Answer 4

Put a piece of paper on top of the wax, iron over the top of it and move the paper as you see the wax melting on to the paper. Just keep moving the paper and ironing over it until all of it is melted. If it is stained because of the color of the wax, try using oxi-clean or some kind of stain remover.