I am surprised that this took time to trace - although maybe your definition of time is different than mine. My regular recipe traces at less than a minute, so recipe that traces at two or even three minutes is slow to me (I have a friend whose recipe takes 7 minutes of continuous blending to trace!) so maybe you need to define for us what "took time" really means for us to give accurate assessment if this is normal or not.
I would expect this to trace in the 2-3 minute range because of the high solid oils (CO, Crisco, and palm). I haven't used beeswax in soap before, but if it's similar to stearic I expect that speed things up as well. How warm did you soap? Beeswax usually requires a higher soaping temp to keep the beeswax from solidfying.
It looks like you also included beeswax in the oils calc - maybe someone who has soaped with beeswax will chime in, but I didn't think it was included in the lye calc part of the recipe but used as an additive. I could be wrong.
Is .07 oz lemon oil correct or a typo? If correct, and I'm assuming lemon oil is essential oil, then .07 oz will not be enough to scent the soap unless you are making an extremely tiny batch of soap. Speaking of... how much was your total oils? Was this a large enough batch (500g or more) to minimize measuring errors?
As for the recipe itself, soapcalc is down so I can't look at the soap properties itself, but the Crisco qty is quite high, I would not expect this to keep for a long time. I use crisco/shortening at 25% when I teach soap classes and those soaps keep for about 14 months. I expect a higher qty of shortening type oils will decrease the shelf life. Shortenings are typically made with some amount of soybean oil which is more prone to rancidity (eventually showing itself in the soap as DOS: dreaded orange spots). I would be inclined to use either shortening or palm but not both, at a reduced % (half of the original 68% is where I'd start, so 35%) fill in some of the remainder with almond oil and call it a day with this recipe. Again though, not having a soap calc handy I don't know how my suggested changes look in the calc, but this is where I would start modifying. Calc numbers also don't show everything.
If you just made it yesterday, give it a bit more time, it's probably still saponifying.
Sorry I can't remember the thread name but I would do a search "beginner recipe" and sort by most recent, look for a post in the last 7-10 days from Shunt2011. It's a nice recipe that she shared.
