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How do you get candle wax out of trousers?

Hi. How do you get candle wax out of black trousers? I was thinking a hot iron and kitchen paper...would that work? Thanks

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Candle wax stains in your fabrics are going to be much easier to face when you freeze the fabric. Making the candle wax hard, you can pick it off with your fingers, or scrape it off using a butter knife.

    To get deep stains out of your fabric, put the stained area between two thin towels and use a warm iron over the stained area. This will melt the wax out of your fabric and onto the towels. Repeat as long as you see wax still coming out of your fabric.

    To remove coloring and additional wax from your fabric, put the stain side down on a hard surface and apply a few drops of dry cleaning solution. Let the fabric dry and then launder as usual.

  • 1 decade ago

    Place your trousers on the ironing board. Put wax paper over the candle wax and heat with the iron. Then you scrape it off. Easy!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ice the wax and pick off/scrape off what you can.

    Iron the rest w/ paper towels but be prepared for a little staining (will look like grease marks). After you iron out as much as you can, put some stain remover (while still hot) on them and throw them in a hot wash.

    Good luck!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Hot iron and brown wrapping paper, which will absorb the melted wax.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Put them in the freezer until you can pick the worst of it off then a couple of layers of kitchen roll and iron.

  • 1 decade ago

    brown packaging paper and a hot iron

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Freeze it then pick off!

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