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If you want, you can use lime juice instead of lemon juice - however, the problem is that there are many different types of limes, some of which are completely different from lemons. Sweet limes, for example, are hardly acidic at all, and as the name indications, they are sweet rather than sour. If you are using lime juice, you need to use sour limes, which look and taste very similar to lemons. In addition, it is always preferable to use fresh juice rather than packaged or bottled juice. This applies almost universally - it is true if you are consuming the juice and also if you are using the juice for some other purpose, such as applying it to your skin as part of a home remedy. Commercially available fruit juice often has a variety of other ingredients added to it - these include sugar, various preservatives, and sometimes even artificial flavoring. Some juices are also diluted, and for this home remedy, you need pure, fresh lemon (or lime) juice. In addition, some lime or lemon drinks are entirely synthetic, and contain negligible amounts of juice, or may not contain juice at all. In any case, it should be easy enough to get both lemons and limes, as today most fruits are available in most parts of the world, and both lemons and limes are quite commonly used in all kinds of cooking.
However, you should not expect very drastic results from this treatment, especially if your acne scars are very severe. There are of course several different types of acne scars, and the mildest scars usually disappear with time. Most often, acne leaves dark spots on the face, and these are not technically scars. These dark spots are not scar tissue, they are simply spots of hyperpigmentation. If this is what you have, then the lemon juice remedy (and several other home remedies too) may help to some extent. It will of course still take time for the marks to fade, but the home remedies will speed up the process a bit. However, these remedies are unlikely to work for actual acne scars, such as the typical "ice pick scars", which are deep depressions on the surface of the skin, or hypertrophic scarring, where scar tissue forms outgrowths. Commercially available creams are also use useless against such scars, and the only option is to either live with them or go in for procedures such as dermabrasion or laser therapy.
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