Wax on blanket after its been washed

MollyPollyPocket

PLEASE HELP ! somehow my son got wax on his favorite blankey ... it\\\'s a fleece one. it\\\'s been around for just about 8 years now and we definately need to find a solution to this one. he apparently left his blanket \\\"B\\\" lay near a bowl that was on my candle warmer, the wax soaked up into the blanket, not knowing exactly what happened but only that it needed washed, well by washing it made it worse, it has spread through out the blanket now. do you think if i had it professinaly cleaned it could be saved ? Willing to pay whatever it takes to get this fixed for my little man ! Thank you so much.

Diyisfun · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:54 pm Post Subject:

Try putting brown paper on the wax, then using an iron (not on steam) iron the paper, the wax should lift off onto the paper.

masona · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:55 pm Post Subject:

Brown paper over the wax with a warm iron, the idea of the brown paper is to soak it up.

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masona · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:56 pm Post Subject:

Damn! Must type faster

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MollyPollyPocket · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:14 pm Post Subject:

i wll try that, good idea ... but the wax somehow has seemed to soak into the blanket, its not that its in a big clump or anything, but when you feel the blanket it feels flexible but yet hard to the touch ... hard to describe. it can't be scraped or picked off, as it is soaked into the blanket. but i will try the brown bag ... thank you

Diyisfun · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:15 pm Post Subject:

masona wrote:

Damn! Must type faster

Yea but I bet you are working, Im sitting thinking about work..So tired

masona · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:40 pm Post Subject:

MollyPollyPocket wrote:

i wll try that, good idea ... but the wax somehow has seemed to soak into the blanket, its not that its in a big clump or anything, but when you feel the blanket it feels flexible but yet hard to the touch ... hard to describe. it can't be scraped or picked off, as it is soaked into the blanket. but i will try the brown bag ... thank you

Maybe something like a small steam gun, I have one of these but I don't know what you have available in your country.

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masona · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:40 pm Post Subject:

Diyisfun wrote:

masona wrote:

Damn! Must type faster

Yea but I bet you are working, Im sitting thinking about work..So tired

Nope, not even working or thinking about it, so there

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Thermo · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:36 pm Post Subject:

layabout!

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masona · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:00 pm Post Subject:

Jealousy will get you nowhere

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CoolBabe · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:18 pm Post Subject:

The iron/brown paper usually works, if you think the wax has worked into the fabric then be sure to do both sides repeatedly until you've soaked up as much wax as you can.