In the beginning, things may look hazy and confusing, but before long, they will clear up and you shall be more at ease.
It'll take some time, for sure. But then, what's the hurry? The goal is to get it right, not to get it first and fast (but wrong). As your feel for the English language improves, you'll be comfortable. All in good time.
If you want to experiment, go with what sounds right in English, rather than what would appear logical in Chinese. Home cooking, for example, is simple and natural in English. Domestic cooking, on the other hand, sounds, well, exactly like a piece of translation done by a novice Chinese translator.
Back to the example you gave, which sounds quite bizarre, as I said earlier.
If I understood you correctly, the Chinese sentence you meant to translate into English should read something like this: You should not let him go to bed with a (safe or safety) razor. And you want to take a stand between "safe" and "safety".
What I want to tell you is this: Save the trouble - just say "razor". In this case, you don't need to take sides because the razor doesn't need no modifier, noun or adjective, if you pardon the grammar. If it's a safe razor, which is likely the case here, that will be expected and therefore it will be unnecessary to say so. Who, you see, would want to do with an unsafe razor anyway?
If it were a safety razor, on the other hand, that implies that the knife would be one that would not get yourself hurt whichever way you choose to use it. Then it could very well just be some hullabaloo from the manufacturer. In that case, no-one should take that kind of propaganda seriously. So, in any case, you would sound more effective with a bare "razor" - leaving it there to stand on its own, stark and naked, that is, without being clothed and sheltered with any modifier, noun or adjective.
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