Teach Soap

Here's a new entry in my Hall of Shame.
I'm doing some experiments to get to know oils better, this time I used a mix of OO (30%), CO (25%), Avocado Oil (15%) and Red Palm Oil (30%): I love the color the Red Palm gave it, but after a 5 weeks cure the inner part of my soap is still soft, as if it was still gelling. And it's heavily sweet, like it had loads of sugar in it (this was unexpected to me).
Should I have considered Red Palm Oil as a butter, opting for a lower percentage? And should I have put the soap in the fridge after pouring, as if it was a milk soap?

I also noticed infamous white spots that zap (you'll see one in the picture, at the soap base) so I'm not gonna use it anyway
Do you think that I could leave it to cure some more time, grate it and then use it to do the laundry or its yellow color will stain it?

How much did you superfat? Did you reach true trace? Do you have an accurate scale? Did the soap gel? The yellow could stain your laundry. I wouldn't do it.

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

Thank you Irena. I did a 5% superfat, and it took me a while to reach a marked trace. I have a small digital scale just like this http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20018198/, with the tare option. From what I could see from the outside, I would not say that the soap gelled, but when I cut one section its inner part was circular, softer and orange. The surface instead was hard and yellow.

Seems like it separated, I think. False trace maybe.

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

Thank you both!
If I try this formula again, to avoid separation and/or partial gel should I let the soap cure for more than 5 weeks?

Convert your formula into grams for better accuracy. Letting the soap cure for longer will not get rid of the zap. To avoid separation, you need to make sure that you have reached true trace. If you use an oven safe container, you can put the soap in the oven on low (170 degrees US) til the soap gels.

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