Originally Posted by
Phrank
Those pastes you're using - if the Green paste is crox, that's fine to use as a touch up for your blade when it starts to tug, usually after 10-12 shave at the least in my experience.
If those are the Dovo Green and Red paste's, you're using much lower grit paste's - the Green being for, "especially dull razors", and the Red being for, "somewhat dull razors" IIRC - "dull" being the operative word, not in need of a "touch-up" in the case of the green crox.
If you're using the Dovo pastes, or even too much crox, you will make your edge potentially very brittle, and it will then lose it's "edge" or sharpness fairly quickly.