How to clean the wax?

Candles are an invariable attribute of a romantic evening. But often after a pleasantly spent time in the morning, traces of drops on furniture and clothes are found. There is a natural question: how to clean the wax, without damaging the material? This is what you will learn in this article.

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Removing wax and paraffin - general rules

There are several ways to remove wax from clothes or clean paraffin from dishes. They are based on the principles of exposure to temperature - cold or hot, or using solvents. The main thing is to choose the right technology for a specific material.

It is equally important to adhere to such cleaning conditions:

• Carefully work with solvents and try to use them in the last place.
• When heat treatment with high temperature( iron, hairdryer), you need to do a fairly rapid movement of the iron along the soiled area, and a jet of air from the dryer can not be brought very close to the material.
• Do not try to immediately clean the wax from clothes by intense rubbing - so you will achieve the opposite result: the stain will be much larger, and the paraffin is densely embedded in the fabric or porous surface.

Important! Remember that the main thing is that even if you remove the wax, it will leave a stain. With him, too, will have to fight.

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Cleaning the fabric

To remove the wax from the clothes, proceed as follows:

1. Put the item in the freezer and leave it there until the paraffin wax is frozen.
2. Carefully remove the frozen mass - you can use a plastic spatula for this.
3. Wash the thing by pretreating grease stains separately with a mixture of powder and water or liquid soap, dish soap.

Important! If the thing is very voluminous or the carpet and furniture upholstery are damaged, which means that these items will not fit into the freezer, put the ice in a bag, close it tightly and put it on top of the contamination.

Another option of how to clean the wax is to heat it, but this can only be done if the paraffin is not colored. To do this:

1. Arm yourself with a hairdryer.
2. Direct the jet to pieces of wax.
3. Remove them with a tissue when melting.

Important! A greasy stain that can remain on the fabric, clean with a liquid detergent, household soap or a not very aggressive solvent - for example, alcohol. What means to choose, determine, based on the type of tissue.

Another option is to remove the greasy stain from the wax and on the fabric - iron it with an iron, laying a blank sheet of paper on top of it - the fat will switch to paper.

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Cleaning the dishes

Remove the wax from the dishes most easily - melt it with the same hair dryer, and wipe the melted mass with a cloth. Rinse the appliance and wipe it dry.

Important! Do not try to remove the stuck pieces of candles with a knife or any other sharp object - so you can damage the surface, leaving a scratch on it.

The same procedure is suitable for removing wax from wooden furniture and those materials that are not afraid of high temperatures. To remove all the residues of fat from paraffin, alcohol is perfect - they need to wipe the stained place.

Now you know the simplest ways of how to clean the wax, so do not limit your imagination, safely use candles to deliver pleasant to your loved ones.