Amanda, you make me giggle. Like me, you have a hard time waiting for that painfully slow cure time. Don't worry too much about the taught feel & skin peeling. A one day cure is not long & the soap is still doing stuff somewhat.
Just to be sure, though, run your recipe through SoapCalc if you have not already, double check the amounts of ingredients, and if you have pH paper, check the pH today and in a week to see how the alkalinity has changed.
Let us know how it goes.
By the way- for weighing lye in soap, perferct a fool-proof method you are comfortable with. Here is mine- I use a specific stainless steel spoon to weigh lye on a scale. I know it takes almost exactly 4 level spoonfuls for a 24 oz batch. If I pay attention to the scale read-out AND the #'s of spoonfuls added to the lye weighing container, I feel confident about the weighing. For the water required for a 24 oz batch, I also use the same container every time and the amount, whether discounted or not, is always ~2/3 of the container volume (near the line I etched). This method evolved after I royally screwed up a batch with an accidental double weighing of lye. The soap salted itself (lye is a salt), it was crusty, and chalky & smelled like lye.
Julie
