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Regular water is tap right? Are you on a well? If you have hardwater it could be the minerals in the water. On the dish forum someone was just going through that. Since this is happening so early, it has to be something that was added to the soap or touched the soap. I would switch to distilled water and no more curing on metal at all. Just put a layer of parchment paper between the soap and the rack and turn the soap once a week.
Now aslong as the soap is for personal use, I think you can still use the soap as long as it doesn't start stinking too much. It's really more of a cosmetic thing.
Oh, forgot, what fo did you use? Are you positive that you mixed it all the way in?
I can't really think of anything else that could have caused the spots.
Yup, on a well. I'll get some distilled for next time. I used Baby Rose FO from Brambleberry, which worked wonderfully on my very first batch of soap. I am NOT positive that I mixed it all the way in, because it came to trace so quickly. I blended it what seemed like a long time until it was starting to almost set up, but I got it into the mold in time and it looked awesome. I did also add a few drops of food coloring at trace now that I think of it, but that was red and these spots are kind of yellowed. Maybe I should have heated it up a bit to keep mixing longer? that was my husband's suggestion but I thought I had it well mixed so poured it.
I used some of the soap today and it worked great. Homemade soap is the best! On the bar I used the spot seemed to wash off.
