Coconut, Canola, Olive oil soap question

[Goldensungod]

I was just wondering about how long it should take for a Canola(50%), Coconut[organic](20%), Olive(30%) soap to solidify enough to cut. It has been just over 24 hours and it is still soft enough that I can't unmold it. When I try to unmold it, it starts to crack leaving some on the sides of the mold. The recipe is 250 g Canola, 100 g organic Coconut, 150 g Olive oil, 69 g Lye, 150 ml water. I hand stirred it until trace. Then I poured it into a food grade plastic(empty Skyflake box). The soap didn't go through a gel phase. I'm just wondering if there is any possible reason as to why it is still too soft to unmold as I have read that it will only take 24 hours to set enough to cut.

 

[engblom]

I have only very little experience when it comes to olive oil soaps. Olive oil soaps requires more patience than other soaps because of the slow reaction. Somewhere I read the same applies to canola. I can just imagine you will have to wait a few days more as you have olive and canola oils as main ingredients.

Soaps are all about patience! My olive oil soaps took very long time to get stable

 

[Ruthie]

Non-gelled soaps generally take longer to harden. I do not gell most of my soaps and it is at least 3 days before I unmold and usually at least 2 more before I cut.

 

[pamielynn]

All of the above, plus canola is a very soft oil.

 

[Goldensungod]

Thanks for all the advice. I'm still kinda new at this and was just wondering is all.

 

[Marilyna]

Yes, soap made with mostly soft oils will take several days to harden

 

[Goldensungod]

I used a butter knife to release the soap from mold turned it out and cut it. It is still a little bit soft but when I tried the smallest bar it had a nice lather(similar to commercial bar soap) and was very moisturizing. This is probably a recipe I'll use again albeit an upsized recipe.