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Hmm, I remember there was a recipe of castile soap that required water equal to oil but also heavy lye (-40% SF). It was a recipe that required hand stirring over SB. I was thinking that the OP's recipe was somewhat similar to it but having the usual number of lye. I think some points need to be...

I have several times encountered powdery textures and crumbly soap. From what I remembered, it usually because of pouring to the mold at trace which was too thin and also slow saponification process. I thought it was kinda like deep soda ash forming. In addition, I also got DOS when curing on...

I think any pigment would fade because of sunlight. I can see it happens on cloths, any printed media, and now on soaps. This leads me to look for some answer on the net, and here's what I've got: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/29445/why-does-sunlight-cause-colors-to-fade

Related to this article, have you tried making castile with different OO from other supplier? Also, how do we know surely if OO that we use is pure OO or adulterated. It could be the culprit. :(

Thank you Zany for sharing the recipe. So this is my first castile soap using your recipe. I have tried the recipe twice for 100% OO. First one by using a kind of salt in the kitchen (I don't know what to call it in English), which accelerate trace even with 100% OO, so smooth and quick that it...