A long time ago (like years) I dripped a bunch of melted red candle wax onto one of my favourite cotton t-shirts. Like an idiot, I washed the shirt hoping that would get the wax out – unsurprisingly, it didn’t, so I threw the shirt in the back of a closet and forgot about it.
I recently found it and I’m wondering if there’s any way to get the wax out. Some of it is now just greasy stains, in a few places you can still see red wax.
Is there any way to get the shirt “wearable” again? Meaning, no wax, and no (or very minimal) greasy stains? Should I just give it up and trash the shirt or is there any hope?
Image taken on 2009-10-03 11:09:07 by wertheim.
Oxy Clean is like magic, so I’d try washing with it.
Even if you don’t want to try Oxy Clean first … once you try the iron trick others have mentioned, wash with Oxy Clean!
If its been there for a long time you will have a difficult time at it, But lets try…
Heat up your iron, make it warm not HOT.
Now take a piece of paper towel and put it folded under the stain, now take another paper towel and put it on top of the stain,(this one does not have to be folded) Now apply the iron for a few seconds, when you remove the paper towel , see if the wax is coming up from the shirt onto the paper towel, if so were in business, now take a clean piece of paper towel and just keep doing the same thing until you have no more red on the towel.
Now take dish washing detergent(cascade) and spread it over the stain, add a squirt of dawn or what ever else you use and rub lightly, rinse in Luke warm water, now take peroxide and let that sit on the stain for awhile add the detergent again, scrub and rinse. Hope it helps, If not you can always tie dye it.
A hot iron and some paper towels… Keep putting a clean paper towel under the spot as you iron… it will eventually come out.
i don’t know if it would work but try this;
get a blow dryer abd heat up the wax
then get a credit card or something like that and it should come off w/out and signs of it being there
good luck
Try this – place a brown paper sack over the stains, and run a warm iron over it… The wax should melt and absorb into the paper… You may have to repeat several times (using a clean part of the paper each time)…
Be sure to clean the iron well after. Good luck!