I am new to str8razors. I have been interested for a while. As a gift to get started my wife and sister took advice from my brother-in-law. They went out and bought me an Ivy, a Roxo, and one that says "Manganese" on the blade. They also bought me a strop, mug, Williams soap, badger brush and "strop paste" in a tube. Not sure which to use or how to use them. How do I apply the paste to the strop? Also, no matter how hard and long I work the soap, there is not really any lather. I am getting kind of frustrated. YouTube has many videos. But same are contradictory to one another.