Thank You So Much for All the Advices!!!

run a hair dryer over it to get it soft adn then take a paper towl to absorb it.... I did it on my carpet and it worked wonderfully!

This may sound weird, but WD40 has a HUGE list of things like this it can be used for. See list at: http://www.wd40.com/pdfs/WD-40_2000+UsesList.pdf

I had a crayon melt into my daughters new Britax car seat, and someone told me to use WD40 and to go to the website to get instructions on how. I thought it sounded crazy, but I was desperate, i'd tried everything else. I'd gotten the actual wax off, but a lot of residue and color was left in the fabric. So off to the wd40 website I went. It took a while, and a lot of scraping, but it all came out. After doing that, and then washign it in detergent, it looked new again. It basically just required that i spray it on and let it sit for a few minutes, then scrape. Continue to do so, and with every scrape you'll get a little more color and goo. You just keep doing it till it's gone. You can go to the WD40 website for more detailed instructions, but since then, I've used WD40 for so many cleaning purposes it's ridiculous... it is the best cleaner for just about everything! Stainless steel fridges, makes em look new. My daughter got silly putty melted and embedded into the deep fabric of her brand new build-a-bear and WD40 to the rescue... you ALL need to check out the website to see what all you can use it for - and try it! It'll most likely work better than whatever you've been using... seriously. It's a miracle cleaner! I used to use goo-gone for a lot of things, and that product has become obsolete in my house, as WD40 does everything Goo-Gone does, and much more. It takes ink out of fabric, and anything to do with gum, glue, jellybeans, crayons, candles... it's the best thing I've found. Plus strange little things, like spraying sewing machine thread to prevent breaking, getting hair color dye out of towels, the main thing I use it for... is when you buy something and try to pull off the price sticker and the glue is left behind - it takes that off pretty quickly and easily. And if you have something that smells like smoke - like if you bought a car from a smoker, you can clean the interior, esp. the ash tray, with wd40 and it gets the funk out. I bought an artificial ficus tree (used) recently and didn't know it smelt like smoke till I picked it up. I rolled the windows down and hoped the breeze would air it out, but once i got it into my house, it made the whole room smell like smoke. So I sprayed it with Febreeze, put it on my screened in patio for a few days, and brought it back in, and still... stinky. THEN I sprayed the tree down with WD40 and wiped all the leaves and branches off with a towel, and ta-dah!! Smelt a bit like WD40 for a few days but not overwhelmingly so, so I just put it in the ofc where we don't spend a lot of time and within a few days I was able to move it into the family room with no smell whatsoever. Hope you all visit the website, and good luck with the candle. I'm pretty sure this wil work if you are pateint. but don't buy the pen - it's good for some things, but for a lot of things, like your project, you may need to use a lot.

Hi C.,
Red wax....hmmm...the wax is easy, the red may be the issue. To get any wax out of anything, place the waxed area between two brown grocery bags and iron it. The heat from the iron will melt the wax onto the bags. As it begins to adhere to the bags, move them around to dry areas so that you get it all up. If there is red left from the dye, you may have to treat that with peroxide or some of that oxygen cleaning stuff or maybe Shout. Just hope the dye from the candle didn't stain the cloth.
Good luck and infinite Blessings,
P.

you need an IRON and a RAG.

Let iron heat up, place rag ontop of wax- then set iron on top of rag- the iron will heat of the wax and transfer it onto the rag.

You may have some color residue left order- stain treat and wash a lot. Sometimes that residu of color will take a while to come out BUT it will come out. I like using DAWN dish soap on it instead of stain remover as the dawn will help lift the oils. But again FIRST get the wax off with the rag and hot iron-
by the way this mehtod also works if you get wax on anything else as well =-)

Best way I know is to put ice on the wax until it hardens and it should come off fairly easy. Hope this helps-T.

Freeze it and pick it off. Try putting an ice cube on it and picking it off. I think I'd try that before the iron idea because of the color -- you don't want red stain.

Just get some ice cubes and freeze the area that the wax is on and let the wax harden and just scrap it off, works on carpet also.

LOL..Sorry I had the same thing happen to me only it was carpet. What I did was take ice and placed it in a zip lock baggie. Placed it on top of the area of wax and let it harden. It should peel off then. If some is left... try very hot water and scrub it in then repeat with the ice. I think it took me two or three tries, but it came up and you cannot even tell it was ever there now. Hope this helps.
G.

put a throw-away towel on the ironing board & put the table cloth wax-side down on the towel. some light heat from the iron should melt the wax enough to remove it from the table cloth.

I would try putting the tablecloth in the freezer overnight. The wax should fall right off of it the next morning. I am not sure, however, if it will leave a residue. This is how I get candles that have melted out of the bottom of glass votives, and it works great. Good luck!!

Hi C.,

If you can't get the red out, there is a product called Sol-u-Mel that, I would bet, could get it out. It is a Melaleuca product and you can't just "buy" it without knowing about the company. (They are a green company that has safe consumable products at Wal-Mart prices).

There are several solvents you could try, but if this is a valuable tablecloth or an heirloom from Grandma, this is the one that will not hurt the fabric.

Let me know if you want more information.

Regards,

M.

The red color might be difficult but you can get the wax out at least. There are a couple of things you could try. Get a brown paper bag or several paper towels together and your iron. Place part of the paper bag (or some paper towels) under the cloth and some on top of the cloth. Heat your iron to the hottest setting. You will place the iron on the paper bag (or paper towels) as the wax heats up the paper will soak it up. Then wash the cloth using some kind of degreaser with your soap. Sometimes the use of a hair dryer works but the iron method is best. But the red color may have dyed the cloth.

Pam has the best knowledge of removing the wax... Been there and done that.