Someone more often, someone less often, but necessarily each of us encounters in life situations when clothes get wax. It can happen at some solemn event, where candles are arranged, or on a romantic date, which also rarely goes without candlelight or in a beauty salon during wax depilation. And in order to permanently not spoil a good, and maybe the best thing, you need to know how to wash the wax off your clothes.
Ways to remove wax from clothes
Before you start cleaning clothes from wax, you should let it cool down properly. This will take approximately 15 minutes. And after that, depending on the type of fabric from which clothes are made, you can choose the appropriate way to fight wax:
- From clothes made from natural fabrics (cotton, linen, wool), you can remove the wax with a hot iron. To do this, you need a paper napkin (or blotting paper) and a piece of cotton cloth. Paper should be placed directly on the paraffin stain, and from above put the fabric and iron it with a hot iron. Wax under the effect of temperature will necessarily adhere to a paper napkin. If one time is not enough, you should repeat this procedure, but with a clean cloth. However, before proceeding to this method of cleaning clothes, it is necessary to study the labels on the label relative to the temperature regime when caring for this product.
- In the event that the stains of wax were on clothes made of synthetic fabric that does not tolerate the effects of high temperatures, you should put on the iron a delicate ironing regime. If the stained item is not allowed to be ironed at all, then it should be placed in hot water for a few minutes, and then remove the wax with a clean rag. But, in any case, do not try to wipe it off - you will only make it worse. Lower a thing into the hot water and remove the wax until the fabric is completely cleansed. If the wax is not removed, repeat the procedure. And you can also try these things with organic solvents. To do this, the cotton swab is applied with purified gasoline, turpentine (in the pharmacy it is sold under the name turpentine oil) or alcohol and the stain is treated.
- When the wax has got on fur (it is unimportant natural or artificial) it is necessary to take out clothes on a balcony or to place in a refrigerator that it well has frozen. And then the forefinger and thumbs, very carefully, so as not to pull out the hairs, remove the paraffin. Do this in the direction from the base to the tips.
- Leather clothes soiled with wax are easiest to clean. It should be placed in a cold place, so that the paraffin stiffens, and then just break it and it will go away itself.
- Spots of wax on suede clothing to remove more difficult. The thing that has been waxed must be held over the steam, and then cleaned of the wax residues with a brush.
If this method does not help and the wax still remains, you can treat the stain with a solution of water with ammonia, then in one liter of water add half a teaspoon of ammonia.
After removing the wax directly, under it on the clothing of any fabric is usually a fat stain. The fight against such a stain is no different from fighting other spots. If the clothes are dry, then stain immediately after removing the wax should be covered with talc and left for a while. You can pour a stain with a thick layer of dishwashing detergent and leave it for 10-12 hours. And it is also recommended to try to clean such contamination with a cotton swab and medical alcohol. And after the stain is removed, you can wash the thing in its usual mode, preferably with the addition of a stain remover.