I will give you an advice I know works, but you'll think I'm crazy, at first: wash your hands with soap, normally, and dry them. Then take some butter or margarine (non-salted) and spread it over your hands. Rub it on well - you'll notice, if any of that grease is dark, that it's actually dissolving in the melted butter. Use a paper towel to remove the eccess and now wash your hands again with soap, but don't use too much of it - you don't want to remove all the butter immediately, just gradually.

Repeat butter rubbing + washing if necessary, one or two more times.

This procedure is guaranteed to remove any kind of grease. But then you have to wash off the butter. Which is arguably an easier task.


By the way: can you describe the smell of Phil's grease? I think I received once an old headset that was greased with something really weird-smelling. The smell was... revolting. It reminded me of spit. I can't stand it.