The thing is that i usually overhaul my friends, neighbours and my own bikes. For cleaning greasy surfaces such as hub and direction cubes I've always used a thing that in Chile is called "bencina blanca" i guess the english for that is white benzine, also while i'm cleaning i leave the cones, bearing cages and all the grasy stuff soaking and it is great for removing old and dirty grease, i've noticed that it even helps to ease rust.
Now the big but is that in the last months i was working in the deck of a cargo ship and we worked a lot with grease in big machines, there i learned that you shouldn't remove grease with benzine but with petroleum because benzyne leaves a film that makes the new grease harden and it won't fulfill it's greasing purpose.

I guess that if white benzine is called like that is because it is made of benzine, therefore my question is if any of you have worked with this stuff and if you recommend it or not.
I like it because it is really cheap, i'd like to upgrade to something that won't have this kind of secondary effects (if it has) but due to geographic and echonomic issues i don't have acces to Pablo's degreaser and stuff like that. Do you have any recomendations that can be found in a regular hardware store or something like that?

Thanks!