My soil is full of clumps of clay and I'm wondering if this is the answer. Any issues with using it?
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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.
It's on the bottle: polylignosulfonates
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169131717305355
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