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A candle dripped onto a little decorative rug I have by the fireplace/liquor cabinet some time ago, and today I finally got around to getting it out. Scraping at it didn't work very well. Instead I used an iron (the clothes-pressing kind) and paper towel. With the iron set to the wool setting so it wouldn't burn the rug, I put a piece of paper towel over the wax and ran the iron over that. The wax quickly melted into the paper towel. Move the paper towel around a little, lift, and voila! the wax is gone from the rug. It takes several applications (each with a different corner of the paper) but after a few minutes there was no wax or mark left at all.