How do I remove red candle wax from a white tablecloth?
Linda in Alabama
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Years ago I had borrowed a white linen tablecloth from a friend and to my horror, the red candles dripped onto it. Someone told me to stand on a chair, have the stained part draped over a bucket and pour boiling water over while standing on chair. It worked beautifully although took a few kettles of boiling water. No red stain left. Perhaps you'd like to give it a try.
Standing on a chair is dangerous. Put the bucket on the floor and stand over it to pour the hot water. Better yet, do this over a bath tub. All the mess goes down the drain.
I just tried the hot boiling water over the bucket method. I did not bother with standing on a chair. I had a red candle wax stain on linen about the size of a half dollar.
Boiling water worked great I have Egyptian white table cloth with red candle wax !!!! I thought it was ruined !!! 3 kettles of boiling water, then some stain remover directly on who was left of the stain a little bleach in wash hey presto all gone thank you
Hi - one way is to iron it out. Place the waxed section on
a paper towel, and cover this with a damp cloth, and iron.
Your iron should be hot and dry - no steam - and it should all come out. Good luck.
Try rubbing ice cubes on the wax until it gets hard enough to remove with out damaging the table cloth.
Hope this works for you.
Did you ever get the red wax stain out? I was able to use the iron to remove the wax but the red stain is still on the tablecloth. I even bleached it! Any ideas or suggestions??????? thanks
Need to remove red stain from tablecloth due to candle wax. Wax is gone but not sure how to remove stain.
try isopropyl alcohol or hydrogen peroxide (separately). Hopefully, one of them will attack the stain.
How do I get red dried candle wax out of my white Christmas tablecloth?
LaGayle from Arizona
My candles sprayed on my dry clean only table runner when they were blown out. Most of it scraped off, but the stains remain.
It didn't work for me. cloth still has a frustrating purple stain from candle wax. The wax came off easily, the stain remains even after pouring boiling water through it. Guess I'll search another site, sigh.
Editor's Note: It's hard to know what kind of coloring was used to make the candle purple. You could try some Dawn which might remove it.
I tried a two-pronged approach: the boiling hot water method (4 times), PLUS, adding a paste of Oxyclean and pouring more hot water through that. Then, I immediately washed the tablecloth with more Oxyclean rubbed onto the red candle wax stains.
12/29/2018 - I had the same situation with my off-white table runner, a red candle left a red spot after I got the wax off. I used the Oxiclean and boiling water method. This really takes two people. I boiled a teapot and large pot of water. Before I poured the boiling water on the table runner I scrubbed it with Oxiclean. This is where you need two people, I then poured the boiling water on the table runner. Someone needs to position the table runner/cloth so the water runs off and doesnt smear the wax on the rest of the table runner/cloth. I guess it depends on what type of fabric you are working with. I repeated this four (4) times, then put in the washing machine with Oxiclean and Era. Came out perfectly clean, no red spot left.
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