How can I remove / clean up candle wax from carpet?
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The only problem with melting wax with your iron is that you can be left with melted wax in the base layer of your carpet. Also, not every type rug will tolerate the heat of the iron, so proceed with great caution. Try a sample section (on a spot under the couch for example?) I've had success with using ice cubes (same method of getting bubble gum out of your kids hair!) to make the wax even harder, then carefully break the pieces off the rug, leaving only the last little bits of wax that has gotten into the fibres. THEN use the iron method for only the very last of the wax.
There's a great guide here - just use a paper bag and an iron! https://www.hometalk.com/diy/clean/carpet/how-to-get-wax-out-of-carpet-44824237
Scrape off as much as you can and then freeze the spots with ice or a cold pack and pick at them until there are only tiny spots left. Use a brown paper bag, make sure there is not lettering facing the rug and iron, no steam. Check often to see it coming up.
Spread kitchen roll or old towel etc. on carpet over candle wax. Use an iron to melt the wax and catch it into the paper/towel.