Cleaning off Candle Wax

Try using a towel and a blow dryer, put the towel down on the chair and use the blow dryer to heat up the wax. Good luck

I have never tried it, but the only way I have heard of is heating the wax up with a clothing iron and a towel. It should come loose. Good luck!

H. you can use old dental tools. Quality Supply sells dental tools that are subpar for a dental office and they work very very well. Heat the tip slightly, scrape lightly,wipe wax residue onto a tissue, and repeat as much as necessary to remove unwanted wax. This will be a tedious job no matter how you look at it. Rounded toothpicks will help to chip away the wax also. The dental tools could remove paint also so beware of putting too much pressure on the tool as they are made to "cut" through hardened material.

Lay 2 paper towels over the wax and then use a dry iron over the paper towels. It melts the wax and transfers it to the paper towel.

I have had great luck pouring boiling water over wax to get it off of tablecloths, plates, etc. I haven't tried it on wicker, but I'd just take the table outside, flip it over onto it's top, & pour the boiling water over it. I use this method often when I have a glass vessel that once held a candle and has a lump of wax stuck in the bottom. Just pour boiling water in the vessel and the wax comes out in one big chunk.

put an old piece of fabric or a brown paper bag over the wax. Then set your iron to a low setting and iron the material or bag the wax should melt on ot the fabric or bag. I never used it on wicker but it worked really great on by burber carpet.

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Since it is on wicker, some of the more traditional methods probably won't work. I would try to heat the wax with a blow-dryer...carefully, don't burn your furniture :(
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If you take an ice pack and let it freeze the wax, it will come off in one big chunk. If you have candle holders that have left over wax in them, put them in the freezer until they are frozen and the wax will just pop right out.I hope that this will help you.

Nothing better to take candle wax off anything than to ice it or freeze it. In this cold weather you could probably put the wicker on a porch or in the garage for a little while and just pop the wax right off once it is cold enough.

I've heard you can use a hair dryer and a paper towel. Use the hair dryer to melt the wax, then blot it up with the paper towel. It may take a few passes to get it all, but it should work. Oh, if the wax is on an angle, make sure you catch the drips as they melt so they don't just spread onto the rest of the furniture!

Try using a hair dryer on the hottest setting. When you see it beginning to soften, place/hold a paper towel over the area while continuing to blow dry--the paper towel should absorb the wax eventually. It will take a little patience but it should work. I have used this method on carpeting and decorative cloth by placing a paper towel over the candle wax and ironing the paper towel. It works great!

you have to use heat and a cloth , cotton works best use a iron or blow dryer and put the cloth between the wicker and the heat and it should transfer to the cloth .
I had to remove crayon from a couch one time and used a cloth and iron and it worked.
good luck.

The only thing I've ever heard about removal of candle wax is to freeze it with an ice cube then gently remove it. I'm not sure how that will work with wicker, but I figured I'd share it.

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You may have already gotten this figured out by now, but if not, I thought I'd share an idea...take an old town and your iron. Cover the wax with a folded towel. You won't need much heat and it is amazing how quickly it'll be off. I've used this "trick" several times when I've had a candle spill on the carpet. It works great.

Take a paper grocery bag and place it over the wax. Then place an iron on the paper. The bag will soak up the melting wax. Make sure the iron is not so hot to burn the wicker. You'll have to play with the temperature.

L. :)

If you live somewhere cold put your piece of furniture outside, like a porch where it will freeze and the wax will break away much easier. I put may votives in the freezer and the wax easily just pops off the bottom. Good luck.

You could try putting an old towel over the wax and then use an iron on the towel. It worked well for me on carpet, but I'm not sure how it would do on a curved surface.
Good luck!

Try putting something underneath it (like a papertowel) then heat it up with a blowdryer. What doesn't drip off you can wipe it off once it starts to soften.

Hello. I have had good luck removing candle wax from thing after freezing it. Now a table would be a little had to freeze, but in this weather you could maybe put it in the garage for a little bit and let it really cold. I don't know how that will work. If it doesn't try goo gone.

Hi H.,

I've been to lots of Partylite candle parties and they always say to take brown paper bag and lay it over the spilled wax and use your iron on steam and the wax will adhere to the brown paper bag. I did try this (one of my sons love to blow the candles out and some wax spattered on floor) and it did work but it was on my carpet not a table.

Hair dryer...works on crayon too!

I don't know if this will work on wicker but it works on other things. Place a cotton towel over it and then iron over the towel . It will melt the wax and then you just pick it up with the towel.

I have read that if candle drips on carpet...to put down a sheet of newspaper, a old towel on top and the iron on the towel and the wax will absorb into the paper. Your sitution is differet but maybe you can try to do something simlar...... using paper towels and a straightner iron. Its a thought.

ICE. when it gets cold enough you can just chip it off

Try putting an ice pack on it, then chipping it off with a nut pick or something similar (A doggy dental scraper? A small flat bladed screw driver?) The cold will make it brittle and it should flake off better. I'm afraid that anything that dissovles the wax will damage the wicker.

Take your hair dryer and melt the wax and then wipe it off with a paper towel. This even worked when I spilled my candle on the carpet!

Vinegar has worked for me in the past. Never had to take it off of wicker, but the vinegar worked great to remove the wax from wall, keyboard and floor. you should try it.

I agree about using heat and a cloth. HOWEVER, if it's a wicker table, don't you think once it's heated, it will drip down further into the table?

I have a steamer (for cleaning bathroom, etc.) that has some oomph behind it. It would get it hot enough and has enough pressure to push it down so it can be absorbed....

I would dry putting an ice cube on it to get it to harden good and then see if I can get it off. Good luck! :)

Ice!!!!!!!!! It works wonders. Put some ice on it to cover it, but don't let it melt take a spatula and scrape it off.

Brittany g.

Hi, H.! Use a hair dryer and an old towel. It will come right off!