Removing candle wax?

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Steph Phillips — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:33:10 GMT

My mum got candle wax out of my sisters satin dress by putting a brown paper bag over it, then a t-towel - then iron it It worked too!!

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Vicky RVN — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:01:56 GMT

I know, It's so irritating! It's one of my old favs so think I will take it to dry cleaners to be on the safe side.

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Lolita — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:54:33 GMT

Vicky, you should probably send it to the dry cleaners as if its an expensive jacket you dont want to stain it worse, dontcha just hate when things like that happen! argh!

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Chris — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:54:30 GMT

That's exactly what I did with a carpet - the most important thing is - be patient . Eventually it will soak into the brown paper and dissappear..

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Geniverger — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:04:31 GMT

What you want to do is put some newspaper down on an ironing board, then the jacket, then more newspaper on top of the wax, then a clean teatowel over the top. Iron over the waxy area on the lowest heat and keep checking every 10 seconds or so. The wax will melt and the newspaper will absorb it. Be careful not to overdo it though because if the wax gets too hot it will soak into the jacket even more and be even more of a pain to remove! Move the newspaper around as well so the wax gets soaked into a new bit and remove any waxy newspaper or it'll just melt back on somewhere else!

If you need to, do it a couple of times, taking a little wax out each time, and let the jacket cool down in between so as not to damage the fabric. I used this technique to get white candle wax out of a red fleece and it worked perfectly.

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Vicky RVN — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:01:55 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions It's also been suggested to go to dry cleaners with it. It's not a cheap jacket so don't want to ruin it!

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Mrs Dot Dot — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:57:11 GMT

A good few years ago I had a huge red candle that melted thru onto a pale carpet..... I just kept placing loads of kitchen paper towel on and using a warm iron to melt it and the paper towel soaked it up.... it worked well

Re: Removing candle wax?

Nick Shackleton — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:47:58 GMT

try sticking it in the freezer

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Vicky RVN — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:23:52 GMT

Ah you're probably right!

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Lolita — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:27:46 GMT

I thought it was brown paper that you use...