Check the ingredients, a lot of times it's just soap / detergent. It does work. Some guy on YouTube experimented with it. Sorry, I forget the channel name.
The lignosulfonate is the by-product of wood and paper processing industry, categorized under lignin based organic polymers, and normally considered a waste. It was found that, with increasing lignosulfonate content, the critical hydraulic shear stress of the treated dispersive soil samples increased, and the coefficient of soil erosion decreased