Photo by Gene DavisJessica Knight (left) and Karen Greenberg own MadCaps Salon, which offers lice-removal services.
Friends mean business in helping families fight against lice
MadCaps Salon co-owner Karen Greenberg said she knows the feeling when it seems like lice have won the battle for a household.
Greenberg said she felt powerless when her children got lice four times in six months. Several years later, Greenberg, a family nurse practitioner, turned that hopeless feeling into a lice-fighting solution by opening MadCaps Salon in 2012 with longtime friend Jessica Knight. The mission of MadCaps is to create a lice-removal salon both children and their parents feel comfortable visiting, Greenberg and Knight said.
"We don't want [lice] to be stigmatized; almost everybody gets it," she said. "So we just created a big, open space where people will come here and have the best time they could under the circumstances."
MadCaps Salon offers unlimited snacks and iPad use for children and Wi-Fi and wine for parents. The salon uses The Shepherd Method of treatment, which combines a nontoxic enzyme spray with thorough, multiple combings to remove the lice, Knight said.
