I read somewhere that Tartine skips pre-shaping on their country loaves and just does a tight final shape after the bench rest. Maybe it works better when your dough has enough strength from the get go.

The part about her hands not cracking is the piece most people skip over. My aunt in Broken Arrow had the same thing happen, she switched off the blue Dawn because her knuckles were splitting open every winter, and the cheap stuff fixed it in one season. Here's the thing nobody talks about though, a lot of the store brand soap is made in the same plants as the name brand, they just run it on a different line and slap a different label on it. You're paying for the label and the shelf spot at eye level, not for some secret recipe. The catch is the dollar store version sometimes waters it down over time, so if a bottle suddenly seems thin, it's not you, it's them cutting costs. That said, at a buck twenty five, buy two and you're still way ahead.