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Best Cleaning Tips and Tricks

You shared your tried-and-true solutions for quickly and efficiently doing away with the dirt (and the dust and the mildew and the muck) — leaving you time to enjoy other things

Best Cleaning Tips and Tricks
Christopher Coppola
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Remove Wax with an Iron
To remove hardened wax from fabric, place a paper towel or a brown paper bag on top of the wax and press with an iron on low heat. The paper absorbs the wax, and your iron stays clean.

This answer to "What's your best cleaning tip?" comes from Real Simple reader ELIZABETH WRIGHT, Carrboro, North Carolina.


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