candlegrease and candle wax

suzybloo

I would try hardening the wax with an ice cube chipping off what you can then cover the wax with brown paper and ironing it with quite a hot iron - the paper should absorb the wax. - either that I think you can use turps or something maybe someone else can help you with that

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

You could try placing a piece of brown paper over the wax and ironing with a warm iron.. keep moving the paper so it can soak up more..
I have had to do this before when i got wax on a carpet... just make sure its not too warm

Snap....suzybloo lol

suzybloo

great minds and all that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pip26

Hi - my first post (and look!) on this forum.

I have removed wax from things (including a massive candle spill on a brand new carpet!) by placing kitchen roll over the wax and repeatedly running an iron on quite a low setting over the kitchen roll. As the wax re-melts it is absorbed by the kitchen roll - apparantly it used to be done with brown paper. You do have to be patient and I have never had the incident of the wax melting into whatever you are removing it from - hope this helps!

sorry - was obvioiusly writing this as others posts were going on - just goes to show though, it's worth a try and has worked for more than one of us!

janb5

How about putting it in the freezer and then chipping it off carefully?

beemuzed

I'd vote for the iron and brown paper trick too - this is one OS remedy that definitely does work! I remember Gran and Mum doing this - and I have too!

maryb

If you can get old fashioned blotting paper that is even better as it is more absorbent

sleepybookworm7

Thanks all. I'm off to get the iron out!

Pink.

Hi sleepy,

I hope you get it sorted out. I've added your thread to the main one on removing candlewax to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

PinkPeach

I have managed to spill candle wax on my tiled floor. The tiles are black and smooth and so I'm concerned that scraping it away may mark them.
I've had a look in the indexed collections for removing stains etc from flooring but can't see the best way to remove this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.