How to Remove Wax from Carpet

If you like to use candles to create a romantic atmosphere, you will one day have to deal with a spill. It's not that hard to remove wax from a carpet. You just need an clothing iron, some paper towels, and some patience.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• An Iron
• Paper Towel or Cotton Cloth
• Baking Soda

1. First try to use quality candles in the first place. Pure wax is easier to deal with. Cheap candles may have impurities, like petroleum products, and they make it harder to clean wax from a carpet.

2. Remove as much wax from the carpet as you can by hand. Some people say to act quickly while the wax is warm and soft. Others like to use ice to make it brittle so it can be broken away. Get as much up as you can.

3. Get your iron, and a roll of paper towels, or a large cotton cloth. Lay a towel or cloth over the wax stain on the carpet.

4. Heat up the iron, not too hot, and start ironing the towel. The wax will melt and be absorbed by the towel.

5. As each part of the paper towel or cloth is saturated with wax, move it around so a new dry part will soak up more wax from the carpet. Use additional paper towels as necessary.

6. When you're done, they may still be a bit of wax residue on the carpet. Just sprinkle baking soda on it while it's still hot, and leave it over night. The baking soda should remove the last of the wax from the carpet by absorbing it, and you can vacuum it up in the morning.

Tips & Warnings

• This method can work for wax stains on clothing too. Just put the paper towels on both sides of the stained fabric.

[jdds08]

on 4/6/2009 We recently had a huge wax spill on the carpet, I tried this and it really works. The wax can take a while to get off carpet though.

[HowDragon]

on 3/4/2009 Great advice on removing wax from carpet. Thanks! 5*!