Last Tuesday in class, we were doing a breathing excercise which we needed a hold a lighted candle four inches from our mouths. During the excercise my hand became unsteady and some wax fell onto my sweatshirt 'Hoodie". I tried getting the wax out with water and soap, but it did not come off. Does any one out there have a remedy to take out dried wax from a cotton sweatshirt?
2007-02-10 12:30:17 · 11 answers · asked by Jowe 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Hi,
I'm not so sure that my idea works on cotton but it sure won't hurt to try.
Just take an ice cube and rub it over the wax.
I have used this method many times but never on cotton.
I hope it helps though. Good luck.
2007-02-10 12:37:24 · answer #1 · answered by angelbeliever114 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you can take paper towel, put in on the wax and with a warm iron apply softly for a few seconds, and then remove as much as you can with a dull knife. if the wax is soft from the heat of the iron, you should be able to get it all out, Just make sure you put a clean piece of paper towel each time.
2007-02-17 15:06:53 · answer #2 · answered by lennie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take some folded paper towels and lay it over the wax.Run a fairly warm iron over the paper towel.The towel will absorb the wax.Keep turning the towel over,and running the iron over it until no wax appears on the towel.If the wax was colored,the dye will remain,but the wax will be gone.
2007-02-10 13:02:22 · answer #3 · answered by Cheese 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is kind of like batiking. We did this in high school where we purposely "painted" wax onto cloth to batik. Anyway, to get the wax back out of the cloth, we used layers of newspapers (top and bottom) and ironed it, turning the paper until all the wax was absorbed. Try that and see! Good luck!
2007-02-16 12:37:28 · answer #4 · answered by Xena 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lay shirt on a flat surface, place a paperbag over area. Take a warm iron and apply it, then scrape off the wax gently. Or use ice cubes to area.
2007-02-17 07:52:38 · answer #5 · answered by lavachk1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
positioned the sweatshirt interior the freezer to harden the wax. positioned a paper bag over the wax and iron the paper bag. flow the bag so as that a sparkling (no wax) area is over the wax. Repeat till the wax is long previous. Launder as huge-unfold.
2016-12-17 07:05:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old damp towel and a hot iron. Put the towel between the iron and the shirt then iron.
2007-02-14 16:30:54 · answer #7 · answered by FromJLM 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hold an ice cube on it....when the wax gets really cold you can pick it off.
2007-02-18 07:43:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
use a hot iron,place a paper towel on the wax(do not use steam iron)and it will come off but scape as much as you can off with a butter knife first.
2007-02-18 03:57:17 · answer #9 · answered by aj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put one piece of cotton over the spot and one under; iron it. That might work if you can't get it cold enough to crack it off.
2007-02-10 12:44:57 · answer #10 · answered by lyyman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋