How To Remove Wax From Pants (and other clothing)

I received an email yesterday asking if I had any tips on how to remove wax drippings from pants (there was a candle/hot wax spill). Here’s the info I replied with based on my notes, hope it helps anyone looking to remove wax from clothing (and will work on carpet spills too–just use ice instead of freezer):

Try freezing the pants overnight (place in a plastic bag then toss in the freezer). The next day chip off the frozen wax, as much of it as you can without damaging fabric fibers. Then take a brown paper bag (a lunch bag size will do), open it up and lay it over the wax stain. Take a hot iron and press on top of the brown paper, it will melt the wax and lift it onto the paper bag. You should probably wait for the pants to return to room temp before doing that.

If you have to ‘hot press’ a few times, make sure to move the bag each time so you’re only pressing a clean part of the bag. You don’t want to melt the wax back onto the pants.

Good luck!

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