Wax on Material?

Question

How do you get wax off of polyester and/or cotton? It's dried now...

Answer 1

This is going to be a little bit tricky. On top of your ironing board, put down a clean but old white towel. On top of that put down your pants(if that is what you have wax on). In between the layers of pants, first put down some aluminum foil, then on top of the aluminum foil a paper bag. Then on top of the part that has the wax, put some paper towels or a paper bag.

Now take your iron and set it to med high heat. Put it down on the wax for about 3 seconds. The heat will melt the wax into the paper towel.

This is very important. You have to keep moving the paper towel (bag) both inside the pants and outside. The bag inside is to catch any wax that might head that direction so you don't spread the wax to the front side. Keep doing this until all the wax has melted.

Now if it is color stained on top of everything else, soak the pants in a sink of cool water and about 1 1/2 cup hydrogent peroxide for 30 minutes. Hand wash and air dry to make sure all the wax is gone. Keep repeating this until it is. It will all come off, promise.

Answer 2

1.Freeze and scrape, warm iron to get most of the rest.
2.Follow both of those methods with WD-40 if the fabric will tolerate it. Work the WD-40 into the wax;it will break down the wax so that it will wash the rest of the way out.
3.Treat the oil-like stain the WD-40 will leave with a de-greaser (Shout or the like or even dishsoap).
4.Finally, wash with hot water.
This method worked on crayons melted into the fabric in the dryer. Some of the color did not come out but all the wax did.

Answer 3

There are cleaning products specially designed for wax removal. Otherwise, scrape away as much excess wax as possible with dull knife or spoon. Blot stains with solvent cleaner such as rubbing alcohol, denatured alcohol, or dry cleaning fluid or your favorite household solvent cleaner. Some folks recommend using WD-40. Use a white rag and blot from outside stains toward middle. Pre-treat with heavy-duty liquid laundry detergent and let set. Wash it in the hottest water appropriate for fabric. Repeat if necessary. Do not place laundry in a dryer that smells of solvent because they may be flammable.

Answer 4

stick it in the freezer & let it get really hard. Then scrape as much as possible off with the bowl of a spoon. Then sandwich the spot between newspapers or paper towels and iron using the the approriate setting. Repeat until it's all melted into the paper. Good luck.

Answer 5

wax comes out in drycleaning. I dont know why anyone doesnt even consider drycleaners, the stain removal people.