When you knock over a candle or get wax on the carpet your clothes or another piece of fabric you must give the wax time to dry before you can clean it.
Getting red candle wax out of carpet.
It s important to remove candle wax from your carpet as soon as you notice it.
Now onto the carpet cleaning.
Work toward the base of the fibers in every direction to lift and get the hardened bits of candle wax out of the carpet.
Repeat until the wax is gone you may have to hold the iron in place for up to 30 seconds.
Again use the dull knife to remove any additional wax residue that may have frozen.
Blot with a clean white cloth.
The heat will draw the wax out of the carpet and into the towel.
Allow the wax to freeze for about 10 minutes making sure that the wax isn t getting wet from your ice pack.
There are two parts to this the wax the red dye in the wax.
Whether from burning candles or making your own lip balm getting wax on the rug is a major bummer.
The longer stains have to set in the harder they are to get out.
You should start to see the wax gradually come out of the carpet fibers.
Place a few ice cubes in a plastic bag and put the plastic bag on top of the affected area for a few minutes.
Liquefy the remaining wax.
Wax doesn t take long to dry.
Then remove the rest of the wax with mild solvent like goof off.
If that doesn t get all of the wax you can place a paper towel or paper bag on top of the wax and use your iron on a low setting no steam over the wax which should be drawn out of the carpet.
Run the iron over the paper keeping it in constant motion.
Clean up any kind of stain in your carpet as soon as you notice it.
Remove the candle wax using a dull table knife.
Press an iron set on high over the towel for 10 seconds.
A warm iron and paper towel gets wax out about 90 of it.
For small amounts the wax will be dry in a couple of minutes.
Otherwise you risk pushing the wax deeper into the fibers if you try to wipe it up when it s wet.
Get any remaining bits of wax or dye stains out of the rug with a commercial cleaning solution or rubbing alcohol.
Here s how to get candle wax out of carpet.
Don t rub hard that wears carpet fibers.
The longer you wait the harder it will be to clean the wax stain.
Fill a waterproof plastic bag with ice and lay it on top of the wax stain.
Turn the iron to its lowest setting without steam.
You spilled some wax and it s not even your carpet.
Place a piece of the brown paper bag over the candle wax spill.
Start by placing a plastic bag of ice or an ice pack on top of the spot.
Dampen a white cotton towel fold it in half and place it over the wax.