Well I did it last night. It wasn’t the first time – it may not be the last. I moved the beeswax candle across the room as it was burning and accidently tipped it a little and a stream of beeswax ended up in a ¼ inch wide by 10 inch glob on my carpet. Darn! Good thing it was a dark carpet because the wax was brown and a good thing I knew what to do.
First I got out the steam iron and filled it with water and plugged it in. As it was heating up I got two sheets of paper towel and set to work. I placed the paper towel over the spill and ran the iron on the steam setting over the section where the wax was. It soaked through into the towel. I moved a clean section of towel over the wax and ran the iron over it again. When the first paper towel was well saturated with wax I switched to the second and repeated the process. Two towels were enough. When no more wax came through into the paper towel I checked the surface of the carpet. No wax to be seen. Once the carpet cooled I checked it with my hand to see I could feel any. If I were to find any I would repeat the process until it was smooth and clean.
This steam iron and paper towel wax clean up works great. Last time I had to clean up blue beeswax candle wax and it all came up with no noticeable staining. I'm not sure if colored beeswax would stain a light colored carpet but so far I’ve not had to find out.
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