Teach Soap

I just made my first batch of soap yesterday, and I'm afraid I messed some things up.. but I could really use some feedback from more experienced soap makers such as yourselves
I did a small batch to start out with figuring I might mess it up, but here's my recipe:
4.5 oz coconut oil
9.5 oz olive oil
2 oz castor oil
loose leaf tea added at trace
It was superfatted at 5%. I started by combining the lye and water and melting/heating the oils to about 110 like the recipe said. Then my problems started. I accidentally let the lye solution cool too long, and I couldn't find anywhere what to do or if that was okay or not. The lye got down to about 85-90, and I couldn't find if it was safe to reheat a lye solution, or if so what the best way to do it was. All I could find is that they should be about the same temperature, so I let the oil cool down to about 90-95 when I added them together.
I tried to stir it by hand (I purchased a stick blender but my roommate found one for cheaper at a thrift store, so I was going to stir this one by hand, return the one I got and buy the cheaper one), but an hour and a half later I hadn't reached a trace and my arm was cramping, so I ended up using it. Halfway through the temperature of the soap had gotten down to 80, which I thought was probably to low so I put it on the stove on low low low just to keep it around 100 while I stirred.
I finally got tired of stirring and broke out the stick blender (taking it off the stove first), and it reached trace very quickly, like I accidentally blended until it was thick pudding texture. So I added the loose leaf tea and tried to spread it into the mold. When I spread it I saw several moderately sized clumps that I tried to break apart with a spatula, I poured it into the mold anyway and left it for almost 24 hours now. I just wasn't sure if this soap is going to be safe to use, and if I did something obviously wrong to make something clump. The lye was very well dissolved before I poured it in, and I didn't use any FOs or EOs that would clump.
Do I need to rebatch? Would rebatching even save the soap? Did I do something obviously wrong that I can avoid next time?

Thanks for your feedback!

Sounds like you soaped too low and some of the oils have resolidifed. If all your other measurents are correct, I would rebatch. Stick blender is your friend!

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Were the lye/oil too cold when I combined them? or just that the mixture got too cold due to how long it took me to stir by hand?

If the lye was too cool, is it safe to reheat in the microwave?

I tried to rebatch, it was only 24 hours old so I didn't add much water... It was in the oven for 2 hours. I'm not completely positive I got all the lumps out, it's hard to tell when it's that consistency. blah.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Okay, thank you, soapbuddy!!

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.