How to Safely remove wax from walls.
When my four year old kicked a ball in the living room, I immediately cringed and then heard a crash. He knocked over my wax warmer and there went purpley-red wax running down my wall. My husband freaked (he doesn’t see these kinds of disasters all day long) me on the other hand, this is just a normal day. Almost two and four year olds commit these kinds of acts regularly.
I went into clean mode as I imagined myself at Lowe’s trying to match paint chips. How was I going to recreate this color? I don’t even own it anymore. Cut a piece off from some inconspicuous place? I always wonder about these things. After about 15 minutes of scrapping pieces off with my nails and a butter knife, light bulb went off. How do I heat this wax up? I was really going for the idea of the wax rolling off and onto the floor.
How to remove wax from my walls.
Grab your hair dryer using it on medium to high heat and white paper towels. Heat small portions of the wax until you see it bead up and start to melt. Take a paper towel and pat the wax it will stick to the paper towel. Proceed using clean parts of the paper towel until you remove all of the wax from the wall, floor and wherever else you find it.
Easy peasy way to remove wax.
Don’t waste your time scrapping or picking at it. I cleaned this entire wall with the hair dryer in 10 minutes.
When you go to remove wax from a surface remember to start in an inconspicuous spot just to be sure you don’t go past the paint surface.
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I really thought the floor was carpeted in the first picture.
But, YES! When I bought my first Scentsy, the lady told me that if it ever spilled, just heat it to clean it. BRILLIANT!
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Seriously, right. It was a sight to see for sure.
The same thing just happened to me except it was my fault and not my kids! I was unplugging my warmer from the outlet with it full of hot wax. I knew it would let lose abruptly (probably because this is the second time I’ve done it) so I was being really careful. Well, as before, the wax went everywhere! toilet, wall, sink, etc. Even the mouthwash bottle ended up with a wax seal! Never thought to use the hair dryer!
When I unplug my scentsy plug in I put one hand over top and pull w other hand this prevents the “all over” mess just a sub.
If it gets on a carpet… place the paper towel down and use an iron to heat make sure the paper towel is thick so it does not heat to the iron but when done just pull the paper towel away and the wax will all come with it !!
Great tip!
Perfect, now I have a link for my customers if they spill their Scentsy on the wall.
Thanks Melissa, it’s helped me plenty of times
I hadn’t thought of a blow dryer to reheat the wax…we had an incident with our warmer. My son was running our dog on her leash through the house & knocked over our heated warmer…ON HIS HEAD!! I nearly had a heart attack. Thankfully the wax is not hot enough to burn but it sure did make a mess! He had wax in his hair. He started to rub his head-I imagine I would’ve rubbed my sore head too. But that just made it worse, spreading the wax all over his hair. First thing that came to mind was grab a comb & pull it out…that was too painful. Poor kid. Then, I remembered I had calming oil (used for after hair removal). IT WORKED! Just a few squirts worked in then combed out. End result-soft & great smelling hair…but broken Scentsy.