Romantic evening with a few melted candles knocked over, lol. So how do you get dried candle wax out of the carpet?
2 ways: Put ice in a baggie and place on the wax. When it hardens, scrape it off with a flat knife (not a sharp one). Or: Place a clean cloth on the spot and iron it. The wax will melt and be absorbed into the cloth. I find that this works the best. I spilled candle wax all over a large footstool and you would never know! Really!
Get some good quality plain white paper towels and grab your iron. Put several layers of towels over the wax and iron away. it will take the wax out but if it was a red candle you may still have a light pink stain. I suppose you could try a bit of spray cleaner with bleach IF it is a light colored carpet.
Put a brown paper bag over the dried candle wax and run an iron over it, this will require a few strokes. The wax should lift onto the paper bag
It is time consuming but it does work. The only way to get the dried wax up is to reheat it, so boil some water and pour it over the wax. Immediately start wipping it with a towel or something. It may take a couple of times, depending on how big the candle was. Use gloves because the carpet does hold the hot water pretty well.
Steam Carpet Cleaner. -- I had a professional company with a very powerful carpet cleaning machine suck it right out of my carpet. They had no problem removing the wax in minutes.
