Teach Soap

Hello! This is my first batch of soap making! Yea me!
I anticipated it may not be perfect. Need advice on the following:
what would be the cause of these layers?
Is this soap still good to use after I cure it?
Or should I "save" it by melting it down and re-molding it?

It has 5% superfat/Discount
140 degrees F when I mix lye and oils
Added Vanilla Oak fragrance at trace and it got thick fast!
Olive oil (60%) / Coconut oil (20%) / Palm oil (20%)

Result: light yellow streaks on top, color is grayish/beige, has marble look on the side.

Thanks so much for your thoughts and ideas.

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I am not sure what it is but it looks a bit lke partial gel to me, did you insulate it or put it in the fridge. plus the Vanilla Oak FO may discolor a bit depending on the vanillin content. hope you get some more absolute feed aback!

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Anna Rose @-}--
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how deep was your trace. Was it mixed until completely traced?

Was your lye 3.4?

I also this it started setting up fast and you may have gotten to the point where it would have to plop into the mold

had you used that f.o. before? to know how it would react?

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~~~Cheryl~~~

Looks like partial gel, and like the fragrance wasn't mixed in completely.

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist