Hi Mamas,
A crayon dropped from my daughter's backpack on Friday right onto the passenger side seat of my car - I have cloth seating. Over the weekend it melted and now I have a large glob of melted green crayon stuck on my seat. I tried picking off as much as I could but it's stuck on there pretty good. Any tips or suggestions of how to get it off? I suspect I'll have a green spot there forever, but I'd like to at least get the waxy crayon off.
lay a piece of newspaper or paper towel over the wax and iron the area with a clothes iron. Start out at a pretty low setting. As the wax melts and liquifies the paper should absorb it. Keep moving the paper to keep a clean spot over the wax.
if it wont flake off, u have to melt it again.
Yup, hot iron, OR if it's a thick glop, freeze it with an ice cube first and then you can chip off bits of it. Then the hot iron. Then dab the spot repeatedly with CitraSolv, a non-toxic solvent made from orange peels, and blot after each application. You'll eventually get down to where no more color comes off, but the spot may never disappear completely.
My answer is similar--use a hot iron--but put paper towel over the crayon first. Then "iron" the paper towel. The crayon will be absorbed by the paper towel. I have had to do this many times to clothes, furniture etc. Keep using new paper towel until you don't get any more crayon seeping through. Gotta love AZ heat!
Wen this happened to me, I did the iron trick but with a brown paper bag instead of a paper towel. Good luck!
You can get a hot iron and wax paper and it will come off. You have to heat up the crayon to get it off. But be careful that you don't sit in that seat after the car has been sitting in the sun all day or it will come off on you. Good Luck!
From Organic Housekeeping by Ellen Sandbeck: Cover the waxy spot with ice cubes to make it brittle, then hit the wax with a hammer. Pick out and scrape off as much of the wax as possible. Then put a clean, damp, white rag over the spot and iron it with a warm iron. The steam will melt the wax, and the hot, damp cloth will suck it out of the carpet [or your seat]. (Do not use a hot iron lest you melt or ignite a synthetic carpet/material.)
Citrus solvent will remove residual stains from crayons and candle wax.
Hope it helps!
Do the warm iron but use SEVERAL layers of paper towel so that no crayon gets on the iron. Or put a piece of foil between the iron and the towel. Keep moving the towel so that you are always using a clean spot. This also works for candle wax on a tablecloth, by the way!
We had a crayon mishap in the laundry around Christmas and several of our kids' most beloved possessions (their silky blankets).
After doing much research on the internet, I found OxyClean to be SO MUCH MORE effective than Goo-B-Gone and Dissolv-It.
You may have to contact the car's manufacturer to see if they have recommendations as well - you're certainly not the first person this has happened to, and they may have advice on how to remove the stain without causing permanent damage to the upholstery.
If you use Goo B gone which might work, be prepared that you may have a lingering solvent smell in your car. This happened to me in my laundry, the dryer to be exact and melted on lots of clothes. My mom got a lot of the stains out with goo b gone but the smell in the clothes after 10 washings is still bad. Smells like chemicals. Good luck.
