I like using pomace Olive Oil, but be prepared for this to be a very fast moving recipe. Pomace tends to trace a lot quicker than regular OO, so if you plan to use a stick blender (SB), then make sure you only use SHORT bursts and not overdo it. I actually avoid the SB when I make my 50% pomace and 50% regular olive oil Castiles, especially if I want to do any colored swirls.
All the advise can be confusing, of course. But for your first soap, why not just go for it and see how you feel about this recipe over time? If you make a 500 gram batch, that should be about 4 bars of soap (depending on how big you cut them.) You can cut one into thin slivers to use at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, etc. Keep the others curing longer. If you let the last bar cure at least 6 months before you use it, you will have a better idea about how long a cure you really prefer for any given recipe.
Since making soap can be so much fun and many of us tend to keep making more soap, you may find pretty quickly that it's easy enough to keep soap curing longer. If that is the case with you, a long cure will no longer be so daunting as it is in the beginning. Even if you don't end up making soap every day (or once a week or whatever), the periodic testing during the cure time is a good exercise.
Also make sure you keep really detailed notes on each recipe, including your testing during the cure. It helps in the long run when you want to make decisions about your best recipe. Unless you have one of those spectacular memories that can recall every detail of every event of your life (I actually know one person like this, but they are rare), then detailed notes are a must for every soap maker.
