Cleaning Wax Off a Bathroom Counter

I have a cat. One day, I accidentally left her unattended while candles burned in the bathroom. That day, I had cleaned the bathroom and wanted to burn some candles to give it a better feel. I wasn't too worried about the cat, because she spends about 98% of her time in the same room as me. And while she does like to poke her nose near candles, she's never gotten more than a few singed whiskers from getting too close. While they burned, I sat down to watch something on TV and lost track of the cat. Several minutes later, I heard a small crash and the cat suddenly jump on the floor and run.

When I walked in the bathroom, there was a large puddle of wax on the counter and splashes of it everywhere. My first concern was that the cat was ok (since she had stuck her paw into a flame). I managed to clean up what I could off her paw and she eventually managed to get the rest. By then, the wax on the counter had hardened, so I didn't know how to clean it up. After a few minutes, I thought, "Hair dryer!" My hair dryer could easily melt the wax and I could easily wipe it up with a paper towel!

I didn't think to take a picture of it until I had gotten the big puddle cleaned up.

In addition to the splashes on the counter, they were on the walls and on some of the things I had on the counter. And then a couple weeks later, I found a spot of it on a mixing bowl that was a shelf next to the bathroom (which is in the kitchen).

She's kind of afraid of the hair dryer. But not open flames!

Clean counter!

I did kind of have some Pinspiration for this, by merging a couple ideas. They were probably stuck in my subconscious, because I didn't go to Pinterest to do a look for ideas.

http://pinterest.com/pin/185210603396401073/ - This is out of carpet and suggests an iron. I wouldn't recommend using an iron on a counter.
http://pinterest.com/pin/185210603395619450/ - If a hair dryer can be used to remove stickers off cups...