of the ironing bottom plate 17 of a conventional electric iron 18 so as to cover the entire surface of the bottom 19 of this bottom plate intended for the ironing and the entire peripheral border 20 up to a certain height of same preventing in such a manner any external contacts with said ironing surface further this protective support has a thickness appropriate to prevent or greatly reduce the transmitting towards the outside of the heat produced by the ironing plate 17 during or immediately after the ironing phase while this plate is still extremely hot in the below illustrations are described by way of example various possible embodiments of this holding and support element particularly in fig1 and 2 can be observed that the protective support 16 which in this case is rubber is made out of one piece presenting three peripheral walls 21 22 and 23 joined to each other and having a flat bottom piece 24 formed in the shape of the ironing bottom plate 17 of the iron in order to cover it the walls 21 and 22 cover the front and back sections 25 and 26 of this plate and the wall 23 covers the lateral.