I had everything I needed but Ivory soap. I did have some sodium stearate. I could not get the stearate to melt. I cooked and cooked then gave up and dumped the oils.
Next day I bit the boolit and forked out $1.69 for a three bar pack of Ivory soap. That session went well. I did forget to do my experiment of adding a little lavender oil at the very end. However, I still have about a sticks worth in the cookpot so I will dope that with a few drops.
Here is a pic of the results of the 1st successful batch. I put lube filled PVC pipes in the freezer for 30 min to an hour. Then I took a wooden dowel, started it in the pipe, held onto the pipe and popped the dowel on a hard surface. The lube stick popped right out.