Removing wax from wool

[Adam Schwartz]

I was lighting candles last night, and one of them dripped on my
fiancee's expensive new wool coat. Is there anything I can do to clean it?

Thanks,
Adam

[Vox Humana]

"Adam Schwartz" <swordams@NOSPAMmchsi.com> wrote in message
news:X%mBb.479362$HS4.3704733@attbi_s01...
> I was lighting candles last night, and one of them dripped on my
> fiancee's expensive new wool coat. Is there anything I can do to clean
it?

If it is expensive, I would take it to the cleaners. So far you have one
strike against you for getting wax on the coat. You don't need another
strike for making it worse! ;)

[DrClean]

"Adam Schwartz" <swordams@NOSPAMmchsi.com> wrote in message
news:X%mBb.479362$HS4.3704733@attbi_s01...
> I was lighting candles last night, and one of them dripped on my
> fiancee's expensive new wool coat. Is there anything I can do to clean
it?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>

Hi Adam

White spirit will remove the wax but don't dig at the fibres use the reverse
end of a spoon to break the wax up.

Take a look at www.DrClean.co.uk/surgery_stains/stain_framepage.asp and
click through to the wax stain example. Also if you go to the ironing
section there's a step-by-step pictorial example of removing wax.

Hope this helps
--
DrClean
www.DrClean.co.uk
The Best Fabric Cleaning Resource on the Web

[Prof. Sunshine]

Try using a hair dryer on medium to loosen the wax. Just warm it up, don't
try to completely melt it. Once loosened, scrape it with a plastic scraper.
You will gets almost all it it out this way with patience. You can also
iron the garment USING A WOOL SETTING with an absorbent terry towel on both
sides of the garment. This will transfer a lot of the wax to the towels.
It may casue some of the wax to penetrate further into the wool so do this
at your discretion. If it is a different color (like red wax, white wool,
etc.) then a professional cleaning may be the only total answer.

Good luck!

"Adam Schwartz" <swordams@NOSPAMmchsi.com> wrote in message
news:X%mBb.479362$HS4.3704733@attbi_s01...
> I was lighting candles last night, and one of them dripped on my
> fiancee's expensive new wool coat. Is there anything I can do to clean
it?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>