How can you remove candle wax off the carpet?
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If you use a hair dryer or a knife you could damage the fabric. As a lover of candles AND cats, I've had this happen many times before. What I do is pick off whatever I can but nothing that's attached to the fibers because it will cause them to fray. Then I take a sheet of paper (I use brown paper lunch sacks) and an iron (on a medium setting) and iron across the paper that's covering the remaining wax. Usually that will pull most of it up. To remove the rest I use an orange oil cleaner like Goo-Gone because it truly works. If you find you have oil residue from the candles, you can sprinkle corn starch onto the fibers and it will lift the oil--baby powder also works, as does rubbing alcohol. If all else fails you can get your carpets cleaned by a professional OR clean them yourself--which I do with a Hoover Steam Vac. This is a tried and true experience on blonde carpets--which often times are the hardest to remove such stains from.
try scrapping it off with a knife..
blow dryer...be careful though and don't start a fire
Hair dryer and a cloth.
If the wax is colored, you'll have a stain to deal with too.
take a brown paper garbage sack lay it on the wax, then iron over it with an iron of course but dont leave the sack on the wax long enough for it to melt back onto the carpet , just hold the iron on the sack long enough to absorb the melted wax onto it.
heating it back up is a waste of time and dangerous
Put papertowels over the wax. Put a regular towel over the paper towels. Take a preheated iron and "iron" the spot where the wax is through the towel and papertowel.
As the wax melts, the papertowel will soak it up. The regular towel presents a barrier so you don't accidentally get any wax on your iron.
This works great on clothes too.
You need to get some brown paper (like the kind that you cover school books with. Place it on top of the candlewax area and iron on it. This should get it off.
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