Should Animals Be Used For Scientific or Commercial Testing?

"An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing," was stated by a blogger on ProCon.org. Animal testing, using animals to test out products before putting them on the market, has been beneficial yet, also is beginning to hurt the animal population. There are many companies who now advertise they do not animal test as a reason to want to buy their products. (Quotation) 
Overruling the disadvantages due to the testing saving lives and finding cures, the advantages win this topic. The lack of information on a product could become a big harm to someone, so that is where animal testing comes in handy. If animal testing didn't exist, girls who wear makeup would be putting products and chemicals on their face that could do anything like burning their skin off. 
There are also some disadvantages of testing, like it being cruel to the animals. "The Draize eye test, used by cosmetics companies to evaluate irritation caused by shampoos and other products, involves rabbits being incapacitated in stocks with their eyelids held open by clips, sometimes for multiple days, so they cannot blink away the products being tested" was stated on ProCon's website. So when buying makeup next, think about checking on the bottle to see if it has been tested on animals or not. 
Had there be no animal testing, people would be walking around with skin burns and irritations all over their bodies. As the animals continue to be the source of testing, the animal population will start decreasing as the animals die from the bad products. Either way, something must get done or there will be products with bad chemicals and no more animals to use to test. (Echo the intro)