A Tropical BURSTT.. (Surf Tropical)

Member Name: xjemloux

Product:	Surf Tropical
Date:	05/04/09 (132 review reads)
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Strong smells and fragrances really appeal to me, I love it when I go to my mums and the smell of her clean washing flows through the house, it's so fresh and floral. One day though I asked her what she was using on her washing, expecting it to be some miracle wash as my clothes always felt so soft too and she told me all she'd used was Surf powder.

You can buy Surf in a few forms such as the powder my mum uses, tablets and concentrated liquid. Powder comes in the boxes I buy for 30 washes and 960g for 10 washes. I decided to take a leaf out of my mums book and buy some powder hoping to have the same effect on my dirty washing.

I buy mine in sainsburys, usually the larger boxes when they are on offer for roughly £3.68, but they are usually just under £5 if not on offer. I did shop around before hand though as I have always been under the impression Sainsburys is a very expensive store so I was pretty surprised when I seen that the same size box of Surf, and scent was over £7 in another store.

The box I get is the largest box being 2.85kg. It's hot pink, extremely eyecatching with flowers dotted around out. The colour of the box alone is enough to leave it stuck in your mind. The scent I buy is Surf Tropical

'Tropical Flowers and Ylang Ylang contains natural essential oils. It infuses your clothes with relaxing fragrances and leaves them brilliantly clean'.
That is the statement on the box and I only agree with some of it. Yes it does leaves my clothes brilliantly clean but it doesn't have a relaxing fragrance in my opinion.

Personally a relaxing fragrance for me is something smoothe on the nose, gentle and when you can just smell a hint whereas this is overpowering, strong and tropical as it says. Tropical for me means a burst of smells in one, all mixing together and this definitely comes out in my clothes. It's the sort of smell which puts a smile on my face and uplifts me not relaxes me at all.

It does say on the box that the powders infused with gorgeous grapefruit oil which is known to refresh and restore. I totally agree with this, it does refresh and restore my clothes but the fragrance refreshes me - like I said it uplifts me.

The box I buy says it can do 30 washes, it actually does alot more for me, at least 45 washes (I've counted) and I use quite a bit of the powder as I love the smell.

After using this powder for a wash my clothes do come out extremely clean, it has even taken paint out of clothing. I'm talking about washable paints that my boys use, but it even says on them bottles that it can stain and it cleaned them and left them clean, refreshed and not one spot of paint.

My washing feels soft and light, and the fragrance afterwards is as refreshing and uplifting as it was when I just opened the box.

I did use other powders when I first moved out and into my own house, and my oldest boy having dry skin was usually effected by some powders I was using, however with this one his skin is not affected at all and I've been using it a good few months now.

I am also impressed with the fact that no matter how grubby my boys get, their clothes still feel soft and the smell lasts for hours.

The smell may be too powerful for some people as strong smells are not everyones cup of tea, but like I said at the beginning I love strong smells especially floral scents and this is exactly that.

I'd reccomend this powder to anybody looking to leave their clothes smelling floral, a strong flora scent mind you and wants their clothes fresh and clean after one wash.

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